Proper Quotes

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In this world of your parents' home, serve your Husband Lord; in the world beyond, in your in-laws' home, you shall dwell in peace. Meeting… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear… — Thomas Jefferson
No man is a warmer advocate for proper restraints and wholesome checks in every department of government than I am; but I have never yet… — George Washington
Television should be kept in its proper place-beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. — Robert Fraser
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and… — Ambrose Bierce
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads — Ayn Rand
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books. — Earl Of Chesterfield
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values… — Ayn Rand
Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a… — Baltasar Gracian
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher
For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest,… — John Locke
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, If you are a rich man, whenever you please;… — Diogenes
Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And… — William Congreve
Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Nietzsche
The proper school to learn art is not life but art — Oscar Wilde
Just because you are here, and someone is there, doesn't mean you have to be a proper little lady or a proper young man, be… — Savannah Whalen

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