Proportion Quotes · Page 15

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at…

— Anonymous

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

— Frederick Lenz

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

— Winston Churchill

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

— Eric Hoffer

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

— Samuel Johnson

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

— H. P. Blavatsky

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of…

— Henry Hazlitt

“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power…

— Paul Lafargue

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not…

— James Madison

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to…

— Sarah Chalke

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe…

— Judi Dench

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned…

— Hannah More

When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…

— Louis Agassiz

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated…

— Camille Paglia

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time…

— Richard Louv

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry…

— Henry Hazlitt

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were…

— Ellen Willis

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,…

— James Madison

I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring…

— Francois Fenelon

Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion;…

— Nicholas of Cusa

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

— Ernest Hemingway

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

— John F. Kerry

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

— Earl Nightingale

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

— Marcus Aurelius

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

— William Hazlitt

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

— Rodney Mullen

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out…

— Cyprian

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

— Charles Lamb

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

— John Stuart Mill

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

— Julia Ward Howe

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

— Tony Porter

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Patrick Caddell

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

— Zero Mostel