Proportion Quotes - Page 4

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.