Quotes with proportion

Quotes 61 till 63 of 63.

• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

  Titus Livy
  Roman historian (59 - 17)
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• We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

  Earl Nightingale
  American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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• When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

  Hector Hugh Munro
  British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• not-too-expensive
• undeveloped
• conception
• instincts
• condition
• something

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