(107 quotes found)
“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
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth”
Will Rogers
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Coco Chanel
“Music do I hear?Ha, ha! 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.”
William Shakespeare
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“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
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
Isaac Newton
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size”
Mark Twain
“A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it”
William Penn
