People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful amusing a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

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.