Being 'contented'
ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic
ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it
ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith ChestertonWe read that we
ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we
ought to forgive our friends.
View quotes by Cosimo De' MediciIf you treat an individual... as if he were what he
ought to be and could be, he will become what he
ought to be and could be.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI think there
ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That
ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
View quotes by Reinhold NiebuhrSailors
ought never to go to church. They
ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
View quotes by H G WellsCourage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what
ought to be feared and how not to fear what
ought no to be feared.
View quotes by David Ben-GurionI think we
ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. (Of Patrick Gray, regarding his nomination as director of the FBI).
View quotes by John EhrlichmannAnnual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds
ought and six, result misery.
View quotes by Charles DickensThe finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who
ought to carry them out, for the Emperors can actually do nothing.
View quotes by Bertolt BrechtReason 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 (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
View quotes by David HumeThe influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and
ought to be diminished. (Resolution passed in the House of Commons, 1780)
View quotes by John DunningLiars
ought to have good memories
View quotes by Algernon SidneyI am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out', and meritus, 'so he
ought to be'.
View quotes by Stephen Butler LeacockI think we
ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.
( speaking of nominated director of the FBI )
View quotes by John EhrlichmanWe've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we
ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
View quotes by Jack WelchI think we
ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
View quotes by Bertrand RussellIt is in vain to say human beings
ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
View quotes by Charlotte BronteI think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they
ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
View quotes by Florence NightingaleA scientific man
ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
View quotes by Charles DarwinPolitical advertising
ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
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