Ought Quotes

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood
Love Valentines Day Important Ought Had Names Because Snow Them Many
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. Niccolo Machiavelli
Benefits Drop Ought Once Out Give More Dealt Handed Offense May Should Less
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. William Graham Sumner
Fitness Nature Ought Dissolution Gutter Tendency He Drunkard She Him According Survived Just Where Process Which Decline Usefulness Things Set
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Maturity Discipline Mind Ought Takes Most Doing Want Whether Us Interfere
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. Dwight L. Moody
Family Man Live Christian Everybody Ought He Know Most Knows His
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. Emma Goldman
Character Woman Human Being Strong Will Sex Single Lose Meet Ought Possible See Mental Only Higher Comrade Individuality Development Also Male Friend Trait Human Being Cannot Congenial Less Who Her
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake. Francis of Assisi
God Human Being Every Others Ought Never Instead Over Sake Submissive Human Being Should Who Servants Desire
The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues. John Wycliffe
Faith Knowledge People Language Ought Our Ghost Since Doctrines Understand End Familiar Scriptures Them Holy Holy Ghost Should Believers Tongues
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. Will Rogers
Day Ought One Day Open Senators Just Just One Season
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen
Community Ought Everyone Be Prepared Take Like Ship Helm Prepared
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness Man Every Enough Ought Would See Fond Troubles Count Counted He Counting Joys Does His Provided Lot Up Them
'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. Marquis de Sade
Sex Drinking Important Satisfied Other Ought Eating Restraint Allow False False Modesty Little Modesty Appetite
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. Adolf Hitler
Sky Ought Sees Green Blue Anyone Fields Who Paints
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. Chanakya
Fool People Dog King Other Ought Seven Small Small Child Tiger Child Owned Awakened Wasp Serpent Sleep
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. Charles Kingsley
Freedom Man Free Ought He True Freedoms Likes False Where Two
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. David Hume
Obey Other Ought Pretend Only Never Passions Than Office Any Them Reason Serve Slave
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Best Peace Calm Ought Pursuit Tranquil Even Things
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. Angelina Grimke
Obedience Power Blind Obedience Submission Ought Despotism Civil Unqualified Ecclesiastical Doctrine Blind Any Human Whether Place Republicans Human Power Among Christians
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted. Antonin Scalia
Today Constitution Living Society Ought Adopted Dead Call Court Current Enduring Mean Prefer Much Means Meant Less Interpret Apply Thinks
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. Florence Nightingale
Words Feelings Think Ought Distilled Results Which Themselves Actions Waste Bring
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. Lyndon B. Johnson
Home Ought Thousand Thousand Miles About Boy Doing American Send Asian Themselves Miles Away
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato
Wisdom Knowledge Justice Ought Rather Without Cunning Than
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras
Life Journey Aid Other Ought Road Persevere Friends Happier Who Companions Each
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. Bill Watterson
Life Day You Gardening End Of The Day Seriously Ought Knees Re-Examine End Green Your
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. Calvin Coolidge
Me Simple Problems Care Big Few Ought Our States Would Criticize Folks Simple Things Take Take Care Know Most Obvious Big Problems Themselves United United States Things
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart Control Too Ought Head Soon Go Loses Hold Lets
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