Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
Emma Goldman

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
Chief Joseph

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
William Penn

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

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
E. Stanley Jones

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte