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The perfection of a person is proportional to how much you love him/her and the imperfection of a person is proportional to how much you hate him/her.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, people, perfection, hate

The chance a copy machine will brake down is proportional to the importance of the material that needs to be copied and inversely proportional to the amount of time till the material will be needed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology, chance, time

An employee rank is in inverse proportion to his use of a computer, and in proportion to its performance.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, use

The survivability of a system is directly proportional to the price of the cooling system applied to it and inversely proportional to the amount of use it sees.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, use

The distance to your departure gate is directly proportional to the weight of your carry on luggage and inversely proportional to the time remaining before your flight.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about flight, time

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about man, doubt

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

Quote by Charles Babbage about animals, man

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Quote by Francis Bacon about beauty

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about woman

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about common sense, sense

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about teachers

How can any one have genuine happiness, unless in proportion as he looks round, and, behold, every thing is very good?

Quote by William Godwin about happiness, things, good, good luck

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

Quote by Jim Fowler

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

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about wealth, fear, death

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about relation, risk, age, olderness

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, man

The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely proportional to how much you love them.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love

The duration of a relationship to a person is inversely proportionate to the importance of person to you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, people

The amount of members of the opposite sex you pursue is inversely proportional to pretty much everything about you, such as intelligence.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, intelligence, sex