I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is…

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.

— Robert Breault

Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to…

— Earl Nightingale

When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence…

— Michel Odent

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long…

— John Hunter

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

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that…

— William Osler

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are…

— Iain Duncan Smith

I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged…

— Henry David Thoreau

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…

— Marcel Proust

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity…

— Richard Doll

To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion…

— Burne Hogarth

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help…

— Henrik Ibsen

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

— William Blake