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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

When I'm not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

If you're the strongest man on the planet, you ought to be able to pick up a stone or flip a tire.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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