| "We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." »Titus Livius |
| "Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it." »Paul De Rapin |
| "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." »Francis Bacon |
| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." »Anais Nin |
| "For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down." »Eudora Welty |
| "Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking." »Margaret Fuller |
| "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." »John Galsworthy |
| "Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem." »Harvey Mindess |
| "I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." »Bill Veeck |
| "The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." »Thomas Merton |
| "Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant |
| "Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." »James Boswell |
| "I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government." »Madame Chiang |
| "Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard |
| "I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." »Tom Hopkins |
| "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun." »William Shakespeare |
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