Distance Quote by Thomas Malthus

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day

— German Proverb

I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely…

— Emile Durkheim

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We…

— Alan Greenspan

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense…

— William Osler

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

— Thomas de Quincey

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

— Thomas Malthus

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

— Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity…

— Thomas Malthus

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the…

— Thomas Malthus

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war,…

— John Donne