Quotes About Contrast

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.

Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.

Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.

No pleasure without pain.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.