Prior Proper Planning

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

    I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?—or, prior to that, answer me this, “Are you victimizable?”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
    Thomas Paine (1737–1809)