The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — James Madison Copy Share Image
