Proportion Quotes - Page 34

• I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Years, Support, Democracy

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• It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Army

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.147, Princeton University Press

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• Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

  Charles Lamb

  Acting, Bears, Excited

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1278, Delphi Classics

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• To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Wheels, Able

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2118, Delphi Classics

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• The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Virginia, Boards, Ugly

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• Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Tyrants, Humanity

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.181

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• He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

  Washington Irving

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• For granting we have sinned, and that the offence
  Of man is made against Omnipotence,
  Some price that bears proportion must be paid,
  And infinite with infinite be weighed.

  John Dryden

  Men, Omnipotence, Bears

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.194

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• I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Thinking, Effort

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.342, Penguin

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• To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Biblical, Fate, Errors

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• Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

  Robert Benchley

  Marriage, Sex, Divorce

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.132, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Art, Inspiration, Hard Work

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• True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Beauty, Faces, Architecture

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• Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Heart, Character, Grace

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• The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Mind, Gains

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• In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Details, Lost

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.49, University of Chicago Press

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• My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Giving, Desert

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

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• youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Disappointment, Expectations

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.2

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• I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.

  Francois Fenelon

  Death, Humility, Hands

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• Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Believe, Pay, Ordinary

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• All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Quality, Use, Decay

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 39), 1766.

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• As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dwarves, America, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Degrees, Failing

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.15, Penguin

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• Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Names, Ideas, Justice

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