Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

The primary factor is proportions.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and courage which it contained.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The waste of capital in proportion to the total capital in this country between 1800 and 1850 in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation was enormous.

The mind in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature with revelation with God with itself loses its life just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction but dissatisfaction never changes.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.