Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or position:
“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)