Quotes About Comparison

how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

Luego me midieron el dedo pulgar de la mano derecha, y no necesitaron más, pues por medio de un cálculo matemático, según el cual dos veces la circunferencia del dedo pulgar es una vez la circunferencia de la muñeca

Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It

Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By

La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante

This made me reflect how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him

Indudablemente los filósofos están en lo cierto cuando nos dicen que nada es grande ni pequeño sino por comparación.

You westerners are the ones we can't understand. God has given you so much, you have been so blessed…why are so many people in your country so unhappy?

Celar es sostener la creencia de que mi amado le da a otra persona lo que solamente yo tengo derecho a querer de él. O como dice Ambrose Bierce en su Diccionario del diablo: "Celar es temer perder a alguien, que si uno perdiera por lo que teme perderlo... no valdría la pena haberlo conservado".

No puedo definit mi camino desde ver el tuyo y no debo definirme a mí por el camino que estoy recorriendo.

No puedo definir mi camino desde ver el tuyo y no debo definirme a mí por el camino que estoy recorriendo.

He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying? Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do.

God is more generous than men and will measure them by a different standard.

In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.

Yo he escrito también algunos cuentos en los cuales traté ambiciosa e inultimente de ser Kafka

I know very little of my own work by heart, because I don't like what I write. In fact, I find myself personally expressed far better in the writings of other poets than in my own, because I know all my mistakes—I know all the chinks and all the padding, I know that a particular line is weak, and so on. I read other poets in a different way; I don't look too closely at them.

Por muy basto que fuera el entendimiento de un hombre, siempre sería superior al de irracionales. El inmortal

El tema de la envidia es muy español. Los españoles siempre están pensando en la envidia. Para decir que algo es bueno dicen: Es envidiable.

Para percibir la distancia que hay entre lo divino y lo humano, basta comparar estos rudos símbolos trémulos que mi falible mano garabatea en la tapa de un libro, con las letras orgánicas del interior: puntuales, delicadas, negrísimas, inimitablemente simétricas.

La imagen que un solo hombre puede formar es la que no toca a ninguno. Infinitas cosas hay en la tierra; cualquiera puede equipararse a cualquiera. Equiparar estrellas con hojas no es menos arbitrario que equipararlas con peces o con pájaros. En cambio, nadie no sintió nunca alguna vez que el destino es fuerte y es torpe, que es inocente y es también inhumano.

I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.