Quotes About Proportion

success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

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

In the economic system, under the rule of private property, the interest which an individual has in society is in precisely inverse proportion to the interest society has in him — just as the interest of the usurer in the spendthrift is by no means identical with the interest of the spendthrift.

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

How much you give is not counted by amount, but by fraction

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.

Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion of current GDP would mean spending £2.5bn.

Money was no more ever "invented" than music or mathematics or jewelry. What we call "money" isn't a "thing" at all; it's a way of comparing things mathematically, as proportions: of saying one of X is equivalent to six of Y. As such it is probably as old as human thought.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

If you are one in a million in China, you're one of 1,300 people.

If the strength of our feelings was in proportion to the events that provoke them, the world would not be the place it is

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.