Proper Quotes

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. (Plutarch)
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. View quote
Frederick Douglass
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
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. (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. View quote
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
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars. View quote
Vitruvius
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. View quote
Vitruvius
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained. View quote
Pliny the Elder
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. (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
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