Proportion Quotes

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

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.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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

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.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

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.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

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.

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.

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