Disproportioned Quotes

#1. Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Philip Sidney

#2. 'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

John Wilkins

#3. Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

William Hazlitt

#4. To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

William Gilmore Simms

#5. Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

George Stillman Hillard

#6. Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

Robert Payne

#7. Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

Edmund Spenser

#8. There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

Harlan Coben

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Vanessa Place

#10. I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

Lorraine Bracco

#11. About 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer.

Kristi Funk

#12. It teekles nozzing like Jock Torrance would like to teekle you, madame.

Stephen King

#13. The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

Mara Schiavocampo