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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.
Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what I am going to do.
Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.
The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.
You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.
Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed
If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
