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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
— Honore De Balzac
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
— Mahatma Gandhi
As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The
— Walter Scott
Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
— William Beveridge
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
— Julia Ward Howe
The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.
— Ralph Allen
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.
— Robyn Hitchcock
Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith
— Bob Proctor
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
— George MacDonald
Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.
— Honore De Balzac
Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
— James Arthur Ray
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
— Laurence Sterne
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.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.
— Agatha Christie
No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
— Stuart Hughes
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
— Adolph Malan
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
— Otto Weininger
To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.
— Charlton Heston
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
— George D. Prentice
What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
— Roger McDonald
The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
— Idries Shah
Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion
— Cameron Dokey
Divide the target in proportion to the available resources
— Sunday Adelaja
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
— Victor Hugo
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
— Aristotle.
Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
— Sherman Alexie
We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact
— Richard Hall
The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend.
— Ron Lizzi
To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion
— Salman Rushdie
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
— Ernest Hemingway,
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
— N. Scott Momaday
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
— Phyllis McGinley
To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
— Ruth Bernhard
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
— Andrew Solomon
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.
— Edward Howard Griggs
Anger, if not allowed to fester and grow out of proportion, is healthy, like a smoke alarm that if heeded can prevent all sorts of damage.
— Sue Patton Thoele
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
— Samuel Johnson
If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.
— J.M. Ledgard
Friendship on the contrary is enjoyed in proportion to our desire: since it is a matter of the mind, with our souls being purified by practising it
— Michel De Montaigne
She is confident and nonchalant in equal proportion to my paralyzing self-consciousness.
— Rachel Friedman
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
— John Edensor Littlewood
In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
— Charles Spurgeon
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
— Daniel Craig
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
— Henry David Thoreau
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
— Douglas Horton
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.
— Edmund Burke
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
— Luc De Clapiers
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
— Elizabeth George
Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading.
— Nathanael Emmons
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
— Bruce Oldfield
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
— W. H. Auden
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion - in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
— Honore De Balzac
Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.
— Paul Zane Pilzer
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
— Samuel Johnson
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
— Thomas Merton
Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE.
— Valentino Garavani
A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.
— Cyrus The Great
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
— Bel Kaufman
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.
— George Herbert
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
— Ha-Joon Chang
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
— Paul J. Meyer
