Prior Proper Planning

Famous quotes containing the words prior, proper and/or planning:

    And Venus to the Loves around
    Remarked how ill we all dissembled.
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    ...A shadow now occasionally crossed my simple, sanguine, and life enjoying mind, a notion that I was never really going to accomplish those powerful literary works which would blow a noble trumpet to social generosity and noblesse oblige before the world. What? should I find myself always planning and never achieving ... a richly complicated and yet firmly unified novel?
    Sarah N. Cleghorn (1876–1959)