In Inverse Proportion Quotes

#1. The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Bryan Q. Miller

#2. The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Edward Montague

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

Ann Beattie

#4. I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.

John Fowles

#6. Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.

Thomas Pynchon

#7. At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Calvin Trillin

#8. The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Don Meyer

#9. The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#10. The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Idries Shah

#11. Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

Arnold Schoenberg

#12. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

#13. A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

Patrick Caddell

#14. The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

Eric Hoffer

#15. In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#16. I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

E.F. Schumacher

#17. The danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

#18. The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Lane Kirkland

#19. People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robyn Hitchcock

#20. I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Bill Veeck

#21. Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

Bill Gates

#22. It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence.

Paul Sochaczewski

#23. Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

Charles Lamb