A fair face is half a portion. [ Proverb ]

The best bred have the best portion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fame must necessarily be the portion of but few. [ Robert Hall ]

Virtue and a trade are the best portion for children. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He hath no mean portion of virtue that loves it in another. [ Proverb ]

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [ Lucan ]

What is the end of fame? It is but to fill a certain portion of uncertain paper. [ Byron ]

He that will make a good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation. [ Locke ]

The best portion of a good man's life, -- his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. [ William Wordsworth ]

Exclusive of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms. [ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ]

He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. [ Froude ]

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ! [ Plato ]

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. [ J. R. MacCulloch ]

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! [ Philip, King of Macedon ]

God's way of forgiving is thorough and hearty - both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His. [ Leighton ]

The greater portion of our lives is thrown away in fiction; it is only in maturer years that we awake to the stern realities of life. [ James Ellis ]

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we bad been endowed with. [ Horace ]

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only a long and painful sickness. [ Massillon ]

No man will harbor any fear of degradation in the ranks of literature, because he has devoted his portion of ability and learning to the drudgery of a dictionary. [ C. Richardson ]

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms; and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. [ Coleridge ]

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents. [ Colton ]

Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. [ N. Lenau ]

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence. [ Southey ]

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. [ Madame Swetchine ]

We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. [ Carlyle ]