Proportion Quotes

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

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.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

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, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.