When you realize how short life is, you ought to celebrate life even more.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

What people ought to do is find out what a national park is to begin with.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.

Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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