“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears”
Stendhal
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth”
Will Rogers
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Coco Chanel
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”
David Hume