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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
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Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
Commerce with all nations,
alliance with none,
should be our motto.
- Thomas Jefferson
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
The school is the last expenditure upon which America
should be willing to economize.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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