Quotes About Comparison

The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It's all right to be doing it yourself but it is a singularly unattractive spectacle for the onlooker.

There's more food in one bottle of beer, me lad, than twenty sandwiches.

They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.

I look and smell,' Aunt Sponge declared, 'as lovely as a rose!

He resembled, to an extraordinary degree, an asparagus.

beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face. 'I look and smell,' Aunt Sponge declared, 'as lovely as a rose! Just feast your eyes upon my face, observe my shapely nose! Behold my heavenly silky locks! And if I take off both my socks You'll see my dainty toes.' 'But don't forget,' Aunt Spiker cried, 'how much your tummy shows!

I IS ONLY AN EIGHT YEAR OLD LITTLE BOY BUT I IS GROWING A SPLENDID BUSHY BEARD AND ALL THE OTHER BOYS IS JALOUS.

Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

They aren't interesting. What you haven't done, where you didn't go to school, what you haven't accomplished, who you don't know and what you are scared of simply aren't interesting.

If you are filled with pride over how free and intelligent and enlightened you are in comparison to their backward, antiquated ways, your new knowledge has simply made you arrogant. Watch your heart carefully, because if you aren't more compassionate and more kind and more understanding, then you haven't grown at all.

When I got my A-Levels, I got straight As, but I thought they weren't as good as other people's straight As,' said Edwards. 'They would look at me as if their As were better. We didn't get percentage marks, so three As weren't enough. I wanted to know I'd got, like, ninety-flve per cent. Three As is meaningless unless you're arrogant enough to think you're as good as them. Which I'm not. I need to see it written down to know.

sneaking a beer by Jesus is like trying to sneak daylight by a rooster

Hamlet: "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

It was widely known though rarely mentioned that an eager young bride could accomplish in seven months or less what takes nine for cow or countess.

Don't 'Father' me! I can tell a hawk from a handsaw. Anybody can, Grandmother Hazel commented. The Hawk class is a purely commercial type while the Hanshaw runabout is a sport job. Come to think about it, boys, a Hanshaw might be better than a Douglas.

But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousand miles of coral reef win first prize? Man's self awareness, sheer conceit. There was no way to prove that sperm whales and sequoias were not philosophers and poets exceeding any human merit?

Whores perform the same function as priests, Ira, but far more thoroughly.

All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison.

The New Fundamentalists are not as far separated from the Old Fundamentalists as they like to think they are.