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

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Christopher Lasch

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol Morris

The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
David Herbert Lawrence

The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Herbert Simon

The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry B. Adams

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
Dean Inge

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
Bernard De Voto

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
Chauncey Wright

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Charles de Montesquieu

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.
Elena Kagan

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe