Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have treated many hundreds of patients.
Among those in the second half of life -
that is to say, over 35 -
there has not been one whose problem in the last resort
was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
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
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)
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 was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
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 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
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
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
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
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
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
It is more dangerous that even
a guilty person should be punished
without the forms of law
than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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
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
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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