Proper Quotes
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.
Johannes Kepler
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
Albert Einstein
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I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.
Albert Einstein
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
Aristotle
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
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The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Aristotle
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
Yvonne De Carlo
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
Feist
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
Bahman Ghobadi
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I don't have proper places to run.
Nader al-Masri
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I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.
Rickey Henderson
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There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.
Ben Harper
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
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The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
Confucius
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The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
Oscar Wilde
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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.
Oscar Wilde
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
Hippolyte Taine
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The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.
Tones and I
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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
Oscar Wilde
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Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
Charlotte Bronte