Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.
A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.
The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect resembles more or less its original in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . . who always proportions his stay in any place.
The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.