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
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
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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
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
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
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
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
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
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
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
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 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.
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
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
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
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
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- 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
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
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
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
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
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
It is more dangerous that even
a guilty person should be punished
without the forms of law
than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
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
Commerce with all nations,
alliance with none,
should be our motto.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
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
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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