(107 quotes found)
“Everybody I've known who's ever got married on a small scale or on a big scale cannot believe the proportions it takes on.”
Arabella Weir
“Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender”
Juvenal
“Unfortunately, the hangover from [the market bubble] may prove to be proportional to the binge.”
Warren Buffett
“One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.”
Wendy Craig
“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.”
John Newton
“It basically has a crystal in it whose frequency is proportional to a temperature, ... As the temperature increases, the frequency increases and vice versa.”
Bill Hicks
“Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.”
English Proverb
“If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well as in the most profound of human emotions, we shall also discover that at the center of every experience is the laughter of God”
Helen Luke
“The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion”
John Stuart Mill
“The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.”
William Blake
