The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
W. C. Fields

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Edward Kennedy

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Erma Bombeck

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Erma Bombeck

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
Erma Bombeck

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau