Quotes About Contrast

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don't leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.