To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says, No, to this question, is an independent, for independency means no more than this, whether we shall make our own law, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy which this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us there shall be no laws but such as I like.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to school, set up a proper business about 10 years ago - our anniversary coming up. But I've played music throughout and still am.
Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?
Proper prospecting prevents poverty.
The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.