An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.
Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y'all's ass.
Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.
The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.
You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall,. . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
There ought to be a law against necessity.
A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.