Proper Quotes

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Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You… — Mark Wahlberg
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. — Joseph Addison
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America… — George C. Marshall
A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have… — Woodrow Wilson
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your… — Rudyard Kipling
It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil. — Andrew Nelson Lytle
He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises… — Andrew Jackson Downing
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost — George Horne
Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions! — George W. Crane
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do… — Samuel Pepys
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. — Barry Commoner
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. — Elwyn Brooks White
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
The only proper intoxication is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her… — John Calvin
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. — Lucretius
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. — Rudyard Kipling

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