ought Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about ought.
“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
- Honore de Balzac
“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”
- James Madison
“The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.”
- Ken Mehlman
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.”
- Thomas Carlyle
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
- Langston Hughes
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
- Samuel Butler
“Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.”
- Thomas Nashe
“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”
- Rebecca West
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
- Sydney J. Harris
“When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.”
- Hale White