Proper Quotes

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. (Frederick Douglass)
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. View quote
Jonathan Swift
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. View quote
Booker T. Washington
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Any idealism is a proper subject for art. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. View quote
Joseph Addison
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. View quote
Polybius
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. View quote
George Eliot
A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. (Joseph Addison)
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
The proper study of mankind is books. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. View quote
Errol Morris
Optimizing responses of economic agents are simultaneously feasible only if the proper prices are already known to them. But these prices must somehow themselves be the result of the same responses. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. View quote
Max Frisch
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The proper study of mankind is the science of design. View quote
Herbert Simon
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt. View quote
Joseph Addison
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art. (Oscar Wilde)
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. View quote
David Bohm
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God. View quote
Billy Corgan
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
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