I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
Raymond Chandler

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
Thomas Babington

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Henry Van Dyke

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.
Jeff Foxworthy

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter

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

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

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.
William J. Clinton

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
Huston Smith

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

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