| "God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper." »Richard Buckminster Fuller |
| "The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge." »Stephen Nachmanovitch |
| "I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge." »Seneca |
| "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." »Plutarch |
| "Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories." »Polybius |
| "The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." »Jack London |
| "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed." »Clifton Fadiman |
| "Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man." »Alexander Pope |
| "The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires." »William Hazlitt |
| "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." »Isaac Asimov |
| "When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge." »Helen Hayes |
| "When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can." »Diogenes the Cynic |
| "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right." »Jeremy Thorpe |
| "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." »Mark Twain |
| "You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on." »Harry S Truman |
| "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." »Joseph Addison |
| "I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures." »Plato |
| "It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve." »Edgar Allan Poe |
| "I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." »Jack London |
| "As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate." »Sandra |
| "Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time." »Haniel Long |
| "Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation." »John Herschel Glenn, Jr. |
| "It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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