It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
William Bartram

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
Christopher Gadsden

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
Martin Van Buren

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
Kitty Carlisle

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Adam Weishaupt

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
Juan Cole

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Max Frisch

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
John Breaux

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
Mike DeWine

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
William Vickrey

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
William Godwin

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
John Winthrop

Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.
John Anderson

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?
George Phillips Bond

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Joseph Butler

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass