Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. Votes: 2
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Votes: 2
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. Votes: 2
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species? Votes: 2
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. Votes: 2
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. Votes: 2
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs. Votes: 2
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him. Votes: 0
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state. Votes: 0
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty. Votes: 0
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.