Quotes about Appropriateness
If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.
- Craig Groeschel
A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.
- George Bernard Shaw
On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.
- Jimmy Carter
When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?
- Stephen Malkmus
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
- Publilius Syrus
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
divinely given framework based upon natural order of creation and appropriateness of function within a master plan. One cannot accept the Bible as authoritative while rejecting its authority concerning home and church order. One cannot
- John Piper
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
- Albert Einstein
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
- Cicero