Inverse Proportion Quotes

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

The worse I do the more popular I get.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

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.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?