Proportion Quotes

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.