The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
