We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
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
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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)
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- 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
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
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
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
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.
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
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
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When a man assumes a public trust
he should consider himself a public property.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is more dangerous that even
a guilty person should be punished
without the forms of law
than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
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
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
The school is the last expenditure upon which America
should be willing to economize.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers,
or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
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