Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority. — Alf Landon
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the… — Gerald of Wales
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. — Orlando Gibbons
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim… — Charles Caleb Colton
Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its… — Peter Julian Eymard
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to… — Samuel Johnson
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal… — George Perkins Marsh
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian
There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered… — Thomas Browne
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of… — William Shakespeare
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop… — William Shakespeare
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself. — William Hazlitt
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion… — Michelangelo

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