Prior Proper Planning

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

    They never taste who always drink;
    They always talk who never think.
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    ...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)