Quotes About Comparison

Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

I can write faster than anybody who can write better, and I can write better than anybody who can write faster.

Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time

I've given you my emptiness: it may not be unlike your emptiness: in voyages, there are wide reaches of water with no islands:

Another Brownell adage that Perkins subscribed to was that the worst reason for publishing anything was that it resembled something else, that however unconscious, "an imitation is always inferior.

Being a wife to a man is like being a lid to a jar: if she doesn't fit, he'll simply try another lid.

deaths by bullet per 100,000. In at number one is Colombia, with a whopping 51.8 whacks. Next is Paraguay with 7.4, then Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belarus, Barbados, and the United States with 2.97—just ahead of Uruguay.

And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?

Don't you think that when we envy other people their qualities, their lives, their possessions--we don't mean 'I wish I were you,' but 'I wish I had some of the things you've got in addition to all I've got'?

At least I've had a man," Leah snapped. "And I've got a college degree and own a business, while you're serving coffee at your aunt's coffee shop. You want to continue keeping score of who's doing what, go right ahead, but I've got work to do.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

There's no way to know how good a player you are except by measuring against others.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

About what you'd expect, was Gideon's grumpy and uncharitable thought, if you crossed John Gielgud with W. C. Fields.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

Affluence is always relative, depending on where you are on the food chain.

The tendency to compare oneself with others further lowers self-esteem. Every encounter with another may be turned into a negative self-evaluation.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

Isn't it amazing how one small little guy can make us feel so bad about ourselves, despite the thoughts and adjustments that have gotten us to the places we are in our lives?

Arabic equals Sanskrit plus history, equals Greek minus tragedy

Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.

This only grant me, that my means may lieToo low for envy, for contempt too high.

Envy Is Behind Flattery.