Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry Ford

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sigmund Freud

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift