Propose

Famous quotes containing the word propose:

    The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,—1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    Gentlemen don’t propose when they’re eating.
    Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)

    Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)