I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.
Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.
the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. . . one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art'. . . (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.