In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a… — Stewart Edward White Copy Share Image
In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. — Henry James Copy Share Image
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
