A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
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.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live. " This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Proportion is the heart of beauty.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.