Famous quotes containing the word propose:
“I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)