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I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
Tae be yersel an tae mak that worth bein
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien
I 'uz mos' to de foot er de islan' b'fo' I found' a good place. I went into de woods en jedged I wouldn' fool wid raffs no mo', long as dey move de lantern roun' so. I had my pipe en a plug er dog-leg, en some matches in my cap, en dey warn't wet, so I 'uz all right.
O honorable strumpet
A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
What is aught but as 'tis valued?
I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.
It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
I am worthy. I am enough. Safe. Secure. Worthy. Enough.
Bekase why: would a wise man ant to live in de mid's er such a blimblammin' all de time? No
'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factory when he want to res'.
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.
It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
I love you, Nathan Douglas Weller.
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.
I'm a little old-fashioned.
No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin
Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cucc.
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springth the wude nu,
Sing cuccu!
We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.
We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.
Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
Good even, my fine young yeomen! Come clap this loon in irons.
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
Thanks to men
Of noble minds, is honorable meed.
I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
Lette me stande to the maine chance.
I'm not following any of this, you know. Beecher who?"
"Henry Ward Beecher." Another slug from the bottle. "He's a preacher. Hey, that rhymes."
Well, that answers any questions about whether the alcohol is working.
Aunts are to be a pattern and example to all aunts; to be a delight to boys (and girls) and a comfort to their parents; and to show that at least one daughter in every generation ought to remain unmarried, and raise the profession of auntship to a fine art.
An old liar told me here
To think ahead and save my money.
I should have spent it on ribbons.
I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather played
When the daft wife heard him resounding
In the deep pine woods in early November.
If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent, we are interdependent.
I'm a fucker. It's what I doFucker-- C.d. Reiss
I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.
Change is hard, I should know. I should know.
Whither thou know'est thy ass from thy elbow
Should-haves are the devil's greatest tool against our personal progress. He shouts in our ears that they are failures, while God calmly whispers they are lessons.
Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!
I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?
In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.
No good sentences ever include the word 'should.' I should have paid the tavern bill; now they're coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend's wife; now she devils me constantly. I should -
Kaltain Rompier had just turned the tide of this war.
Dorian had never been more ashamed of himself.
He should have been better. Should have seen better. They all should have.
Think ere you speak
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Should is my all time least favorite word. It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.
You have to do to be.-- Eric Rofes
You can live your life in "should" and never change anything. What's done is done. We buried our dead. I went home. Manuel went to Shadowed Hills to hate me in peace.
To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
Dairy laid a hand gently on her flank. "Captain Loch showed me the difference between is and should. She shouldn't be gone but she is..." She was still trembling. Tiny whiskers of breath barely made puffs of steam in the cold morning air. "But she shouldn't be. Someone needs to start should.
Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.
Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
Ah, I remember now why you ceased to amuse, Myrnin. You use honesy like a club.
Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin' me lawn and killin' what Brits come around.
Now hang on a ding darn minute.
There is no fool like an old fool.
I know what irony is.'
'Okay, Alanis.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
Should, is the worst word
in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're
not, they're disappointed.
I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.
A fool must now and then be right by chance. - WILLIAM COWPER
As the yeere is, your pot must seeth.
You should try to avoid using the words "should" and "try".
You weaselly short-dicked elk-fucker.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
There are in me the makings of a very fine loafer ...
The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, whenever he has a feeling that he ought to do 'x', to say on this ground that he ought to do 'x'.
Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear I fall into the latter category.
I was kidding, Hazel Grace. I understand. ( But we both know that okay is a very flirty word. Okay is BURSTING with sensuality.)
Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!
This Miss Wooster that I knew married a man named Spenser. Was she any relation?"
"She is my Aunt Agatha," I replied, and I spoke with a good deal of bitterness, trying to suggest by my manner that he was exactly the sort of man, in my opinion, who would know my Aunt Agatha.
I am alrrready herrre forrr you, Alex. Wheneverrr you need me, as long as you need me. And even longerrr," he said. "It is my duty. But it's also my pleasurrre.
The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men, for a' that!
I don't know if I'm so righteous.
Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Fill till the wine o'erswell the cup
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on.
Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.
I'm not old-fashioned.
You never oughta drink water when it ain't running,
Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.
But cow well you ass therefore my bird
I'mHereBecauseIHearYou'reDatingMySister.-- Kyra Davis
I am a yea-sayer.
Whaddup, deskfucker?