A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Thomas Kempis

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
Clyde Tombaugh

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
Peter Cooper

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
Steven Morrissey

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
Linda Chavez

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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.
John Rowland

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
Martin van Creveld

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.
Camille Paglia

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.
Marcus V. Pollio

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
Julia Ward Howe

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Isaac Disraeli

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
Maggie Gallagher

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mohandas Gandhi