Quotes About Proportion

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

Something needn't be large to be good.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

You and I, on the other hand, are the perfect size for each other. As we're very nearly the same height, we're just like a pair of bookends.

Sometimes things you think are adding value actually subtract from it. Too much ketchup can ruin the fries. Value is about balance.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts." -The Decoration of Houses

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.

The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.

The right of equal suffrage among the States is another exceptionable part of the Confederation. Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.