Prior Proper Planning

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

    “Less smooth than her Skin and less white than her breast
    Was this pollisht stone beneath which she lyes prest
    Stop, Reader, and Sigh while thou thinkst on the rest

    With a just trim of Virtue her Soul was endu’d
    Not affectedly Pious nor secretly lewd,
    She cut even between the Cocquet and the Prude.”
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    “A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

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