Top 100 Proper Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Proper

#1. A mad killer or anything, darling. If you're going to insult our neighbor, let's use proper grammar to do so." Brody

Lauren Dane

#2. The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#3. Clocks need a man to keep them in proper subjection.)

D.E. Stevenson

#4. It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

Abe Ajay

#5. Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

Ovid

#6. The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

Carl G. Fisher

#7. The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

Lamar S. Smith

#8. Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

Edward Abbey

#9. The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Napoleon Hill

#10. I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

Garrett Neff

#11. It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

Andrew Nelson Lytle

#12. A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Xenocrates

#14. These values are 'distinctly European' because they were thought out, articulated and refined in the part of the planet that tends to be described as 'Europe proper', and their articulation and refinement cannot be separated from the course of Europe's history.

Zygmunt Bauman

#15. The way he said "Prism" left no question about what he meant: it was a proper name, the title of some strange passage, and his voice ached around that single syllable like flesh aches around a knife.

Seanan McGuire

#16. When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

Carl Paladino

#17. We are about to be eaten by a dragon, you're crawling on bleeding hands through bat droppings, and you're worried about being proper?

Bethany Wiggins

#18. An investigation's proper course cannot be mapped in advance. It follows each piece of information forward to the next one.

Ben H. Winters

#19. I prefer creatures with the proper amount of legs. Two or four are good. Six, eight, or none ... that's just not right.

Josh Lanyon

#20. Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

John Maynard Smith

#21. Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Isaac Barrow

#22. Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.

Dean Karnazes

#23. The internet makes every online action memorable. Practice proper Netiquette for good memories.

David Chiles

#24. Proper and effective time management is the best way to make it in life

Sunday Adelaja

#25. A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Jane Austen

#26. Early in my career, I had difficulty breathing during workouts and my performance on the ice suffered. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with EIB and received the proper treatment that I was able to reach my peak performance.

Apolo Ohno

#27. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke

#28. All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Ellis Peters

#29. Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and all 'wrong beliefs' go away. If the 'wrong' beliefs' are there, true religion cannot be there.

Dada Bhagwan

#30. We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

Saul David

#31. In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

Graham Taylor

#32. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

George Eastman

#33. I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

Ronald Biggs

#34. Without a proper view of God there cannot exist a proper view of man.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#35. Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

George Gershwin

#36. I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Brian May

#37. We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.

Andrew Lansley

#38. He might actually be a decent bloodsucker. And by decent, I mean a proper, murdering, 'I eat babies for breakfast' vampire. It's always the nice ones you have to worry about.

Julie Kagawa

#39. It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

John Hill Burton

#40. I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Robert B. Parker

#41. I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#42. I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

Jason Wu

#43. To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Confucius

#44. Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand, correcting him without creating fear, praising him properly, and doing it all at the proper time are critical skills to develop if your dog is to learn from you.

Brian Kilcommons

#45. Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does ...

Miles Franklin

#46. Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

Marvin Shanken

#47. Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

James Madison

#48. My feet are wet," said Mr. Dreary.
"You lack the proper gear," I said. We teetered along a trickle of land that wound between water and mud. "Here in the swamp, even the swans wear rubber boots.

Franny Billingsley

#49. In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

Barbara Holland

#50. A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

A.A. Milne

#51. If I ask you, are you conscious right now? You'd go right ahead and tell me - yes. That's because your conscious mind is constructing an awareness in you about everything around you. And underneath that operation of your conscious mind, there are billions of neurons working in proper harmony.

Abhijit Naskar

#52. I remember that I wanted to kill It,' Bill said, and for the first time (and ever after) he heard the pronoun gain proper-noun status in his own voice.

Stephen King

#53. Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

Marcus Aurelius

#54. I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.

Amy Heckerling

#55. Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

John Calvin

#56. Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

Richard Neal

#57. In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

James Madison

#58. To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

Mark E. Petersen

#59. The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

Michael Horton

#60. Clothes do not make the man, but you need the proper costume to play the part.

Patrick Rothfuss

#61. We wanted proper outback: a place where men were men and sheep were nervous.

Bill Bryson

#62. Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.

Abhijit Naskar

#63. The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

Margaret Atwood

#64. I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.

Paula Poundstone

#65. We all have some proper noun to blame.

Chuck Palahniuk

#66. It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

Ellen Glasgow

#67. The brain can only assume its proper behavior when consciousness is doing what it is designed for: not writhing and whirling to get out of present experience, but being effortlessly aware of it.

Alan W. Watts

#68. The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.

Jonathan Heatt

#69. Follow your Netiquette. Practice proper internet etiquette.

David Chiles

#70. Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.

Gurinder Chadha

#71. Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

Thomas Frank

#72. Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

William Shenstone

#73. God neither wills nor decrees anything without having long before directed it to its proper end. People

John Calvin

#74. Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

Jean Chretien

#75. Dr. Steven Bratman has coined the term orthorexia nervosa, a pathological fixation on eating proper food.

Lierre Keith

#76. God, understood in this proper sense, is essentially beyond finite comprehension;

David Bentley Hart

#77. He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family
the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

August Strindberg

#78. I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.

Philip Yancey

#79. The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

William Ralph Inge

#80. The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

Andre Kertesz

#81. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

Andre Maurois

#82. I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

Alan Davies

#83. When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#84. The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

Andrew Marr

#85. It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren't supposed to do.

Gail Collins

#86. Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

Travis Bradberry

#87. In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

Tamsin Greig

#88. If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Mahatma Gandhi

#89. Fair tax does not mean we don't want to encourage wealth creation. Wealth creation is how we raise the money to pay for world class schools and hospitals, for proper care of the weak, and dignity for the elderly.

Johann Lamont

#90. Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.

Edward Kennedy

#91. I break an emcee off proper
Yo don't check me,
Ask your Moms and Pops,
Yo they respect me,
But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin'
You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"

KRS-One

#92. I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Noam Chomsky

#93. A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

Lord Chesterfield

#94. Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.

Vicki Brown

#95. Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.

Michael Leunig