Quotes About Comparison

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

If with evil You punish the evil I have done Pray tell, what is the difference between You and me?

If You punish with evil the evil I have done, tell, what is the difference between You and me?

Si l'on faisait l'histoire comparée du monde chrétien et du monde musulman, on découvrirait d'un côté une religion longtemps intolérante, porteuse d'une évidente tentation totalitaire, mais qui s'est peu à peu muée en religion d'ouverture, de l'autre côté une religion porteuse d'une vocation d'ouverture, mais qui peu à peu dérivé vers des comportements intolérants et totalitaires.

Il y a des gens qui sont heureux du bonheur des autres, même s'ils ne le partagent que brièvement, et très partiellement, et de l'extérieur. Et il y en a d'autres qui se sentent agressés par le bonheur des autres.

The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.

Anyway, if Calcutta today suffers in comparison, it's not really to other cities, but principally to itself and what it used to be. Anyone who has an idea of what Calcutta once was will find that vanished Calcutta the single most insurmountable obstacle to understanding, or sympathising with, the city today.

Unasinous (adj.) Being equal to another in stupidity. If you are uncertain how one might use this word, just think of any two political parties. also

Whitman said, 'I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.' You ought to spend more time with people who know how bad they are.

That must be rough, wanting to be the rag doll, wishing you were the ragged thing, when all you did wrong was be too perfect.

You are being such a dick as to make a real dick look like a labia minora

It was like the time he'd driven a friend's MG in college—doable but not fun.

Such a simple concept. But then, the withy reed was always so in awe of the oak, it never occurred to it to grow.

feeling like you're a failure in the romance department because you couldn't sprout wood if you woke up as fertile soil and the other guy's dick was bamboo.

How was it this kid walked this earth like he was a part of it, and Jeremy had only ever felt like a flea on its back? There had to be a flaw, Jeremy

About the only thing camels and horses have in common, sir, is that people ride them.

You should be too busy watering your own grass to notice if someone else's is greener.

I would rather have a Hemingwayesque failure than a Juhaszian success.

Why is it that a worm can regrow most of its body, but we can't replace so much as a finger? I am left with the troubling conclusion that the worm's survival may, in the grand scheme of things, be more important than my own.

That is because firstborn presumes there are others. Firstborn child is usually seen as a different designation than only child.

I mentioned how much I like the Magi, not only because they stop to ask for directions, but also because they are delightfully comic figures. They speak the truth, even when they do not realize the import of their words. I then compared them to Larry, Moe, and Curly (if these are unfamiliar people to you, ask someone over the age of seventy).

To grasp the implications of the comparison—the term "parable" comes from the Greek para, "along side, together with," as in "parallel" or "paradox," and balo, "to cast," "to throw"—we need to understand the nuances of each side of the equation. We immediately realize that, with such comparisons, no single meaning can ever be determined, just as no single metaphor or simile can be restricted.