Portion

Famous quotes containing the word portion:

“Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“A certain portion of the human race
Has certainly a taste for being diddled.”
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)