Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.

I always feel that my films ought to teach me something about life.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

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