Proportion Quotes - Page 3

I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and managed to conceal the little dog upon my person. All went well until my bosom barked.

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.