We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill 
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
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)
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
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 always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
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
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 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
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
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
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.
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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)
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
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
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
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
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Commerce with all nations,
alliance with none,
should be our motto.
- Thomas Jefferson
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing
and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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)
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
If there is one principle more deeply rooted
in the mind of every American,
it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
When a man assumes a public trust
he should consider himself a public property.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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