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.

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.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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

It may be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government owes not only a proportion of his property but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

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.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.