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Proportion Quotes by Douglas Adams
- If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of…
- To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is…
- The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial,…
More Proportion Quotes
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- 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… — Madeleine Albright
- An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel