Should Quotes

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.