A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
Paul Cezanne

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Those who own the country ought to govern it.
John Jay

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
Rick Perry

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Herbert Simon

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
Francis Ford Coppola

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

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Tony Campolo

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Samuel Richardson

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
Tony Campolo

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Samuel Richardson

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
Paul Wellstone

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kin Hubbard

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Pierre Corneille

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.
John G. Schmitz

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. Bohn

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Anthony Trollope