An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary. With the improper diet, no doctor can help
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.
Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.
Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.
We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
It's improper to use the egg roll for political purposes.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.
As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree.
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.
If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.
