Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the… — Milton S. Hershey Copy Share Image
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Fritz Muller Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done! — David Allen Copy Share Image
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism -… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase,… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
