Proportion And Non Quotes

#1. [The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Albert Einstein

#2. There were as many Jews as Greeks in the Roman empire, and a higher proportion of them were literate.

Paul Johnson

#3. Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.

Virginia Woolf

#4. The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.

Charles Baudelaire

#5. I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

Mark Twain

#6. Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. God worked in their lives in proportion to the degree of the koinonia, the quality of love between believers. Their favor with God flowed largely from his pleasure of their depth of fellowship.

John Franklin

#8. The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Baron De Montesquieu

#9. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

Horace Mann

#12. A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

William Penn

#13. One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

Milton S. Hershey

#14. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

David Brier

#15. 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

#16. Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.

Clarence DeMar

#17. We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

Garrison Keillor

#18. Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Sissela Bok

#19. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

Zero Mostel

#20. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster

#21. In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Charles Spurgeon

#22. There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.

Jennifer Niven

#23. I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut
everything.

Karl Lagerfeld

#24. It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

Calvin Trillin

#25. Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

Vernon Howard

#26. According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

Andre Sainte-Lague

#27. The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#28. Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

#29. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack of perspective and proportion.

Sally Brampton