Source: Tender Is the Night
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor https://books.google.com/books?id=60FkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Humor+is+laughing+at+what+you+haven%27t+got+when+you+ought+to+have+it.%22, p. vii (1966)
“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer”
Henry Lawson (1867–1922) Australian writer and poet
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Context: There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
“Anything that can be laughed out of this world ought not to stay in it.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
“You ought not to cross your children unnecessarily, for it makes them ill-natured.”
Ann Lee (1736–1784) English Shaker leader
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
“They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Tunnel of Love"
Song lyrics, Tunnel Of Love (1987)
