Proportion

Famous quotes containing the word proportion:

“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)