Proper Planning Prevents

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

    All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Manners and Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.
    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)

    Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)