Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called…

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

— James Van Fleet

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

— Henry Fielding

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty…

— Samuel Johnson

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute…

— Anonymous

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

— Mark Twain

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

— Winston Churchill

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the…

— Horace

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in…

— Charles Lamb

We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels,…

— Michel de Montaigne

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

— Horace

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

— Lucan

The idle brain is the devil's playground.

— Eric Lange

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

— Nipsey Hussle

“Reality has a tendency to reveal itself when man is idle, and so it is because of this that idleness is often regarded as…

— VD