Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature… — David Attenborough
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military… — Charles Babbage
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. — Honore de Balzac
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
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
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more… — William Blake
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. — Madeleine Albright
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase,… — Robert Burton
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over… — Tony Campolo
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. — John Carmack
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. — Emile M. Cioran
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed,… — Chuck Close
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness… — Alexander Hamilton

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