Proportion Quotes

• A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

  

  George Washington
  • Punishment
  • Variety
  • Utility

• Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Music
  • Men

• Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Eye
  • Destroys
  • Outline

• A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Proportion

• Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Prime

• I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.

  

  Henrik Lundqvist
  • Thanks
  • Fit
  • Athletic

• What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Prove

• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Force
  • Virtues
  • Developing

• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Ideas
  • Roots
  • Proportion

• In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.

  

  Michael Sandel
  • Natural
  • Public
  • Failing

• In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • American
  • Proportion
  • Dropped

• The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Parent
  • Female
  • Borders

• People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • People
  • Given
  • Entitlement

• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. —Michael J. Fox

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Happiness
  • Expectations
  • Acceptance

• My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Happy
  • Superstition
  • Scientific Facts

• Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Architecture
  • Building
  • Careers

• Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.

  

  El Greco
  • Knowledge
  • Painting
  • Count

• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

  

  Rollo May
  • Confused
  • Independence
  • Dependence

• 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.

  

  Ernst Engel
  • Family
  • Food
  • Measure

• I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Suffering
  • Connection
  • Stress

• The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Poet
  • Creator
  • Proportion

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

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Development
  • Proportion
  • Discontent

• The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Habit
  • Prison
  • Distressing

• You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • People
  • Lying
  • Track

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