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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. -- William Ralph Inge
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. -- Ovid
Wherever chocolate is made, chocolate is chocolate. And any month that contains the letter a, e, i, o, or u is the proper time to share it with others. -- David Augsburger
After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way. -- Lee Konitz
They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought. -- John Mica
Time puts things in proper perspective. -- Cameron Crowe
Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time. -- Orrin Woodward
All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait. -- Vincent de Paul
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out. -- Katy B
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland
Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time. -- Bernard Meltzer
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. -- Thomas J. Watson
Don't ever interrupt me again. And next time you do, show me the proper respect. -- Randy Orton
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. -- Malcolm X
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. -- Andre Bazin
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. -- Norton Juster
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere -- Lin Yutang
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. -- William Ralph Inge
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. -- Samuel I. Prime
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. -- John Milton
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. -- William Shenstone
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. -- William Cowper
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost -- George Horne
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time. -- Ovid
There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time. -- Terry Pratchett
Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. -- Paul the Apostle
To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up. -- Ogden Nash
I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision. -- John Wooden
Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late. -- Andre Maurois
The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours. -- Frank Bettger
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. -- Jack London
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday. -- Graham Taylor
I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place. -- Sarah Dessen
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention. -- Robert Grudin
When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. -- Diogenes
...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power. -- John Henrik Clarke
For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided. -- William Batchelder Greene
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost. -- Thomas Bernhard
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time. -- August Strindberg
Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility. -- Marcus Aurelius
Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time -- Bill Johnson
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. -- Diogenes Laertius

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