Prior Proper Planning

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

    To John I owed great obligation;
    But John, unhappily, thought fit
    To publish it to all the nation:
    Sure John and I are more than quit.
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
    Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931)

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