Increasing Pressure Ratio

Famous quotes containing the words increasing, pressure and/or ratio:

    “Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white
    beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your
    voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit
    single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? and
    will you yet call yourself young?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)