Quotes About Proportion

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.

I'm sure you've read For Whom The Bell Tolls. Well, Robert Jordan knows he's going to die. 'There is only now,' he says, 'and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.' None of us know how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years – I like living as if I have that two days.

Too little of it is no better than too much

If the Sun were reduced to the size of a basketball, Earth would be a small apple seed about 30 meters from the ball.

If we put a vinaigrette together, every part of it is weighed. For the burger, we do a bit of arugula, olive oil - everything is weighed. To the gram.

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

If heaven be so fair,the sun so fair, how much fairer shall He be that made them fair? For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures, proportionally the maker of them is seen.

On second thought, though, maybe that was what being made in the Divine Image was all about. Eighty percent of all creatures are insects and sixty percent of all insects are beetles. If God was so inordinately fond of beetles, who could fault human beings for playing with paste?

The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion. What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power. What is dissipated, divided, and distended rots and falls to the ground. The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.

What is bloated beyond its proportions inevitably collapses. The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion.

The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion. What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power.

The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known. It is not an esthetically free and natural style. It is esthetically restrained. Everything is under control. Its value is measured in terms of the skill with which this control is maintained.

Their expenses tend to increase in proportion to their salary increase:

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.

According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.