Quotes About Comparison

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

One of Cosimo's favorite expressions was, Envy is weed that should not be watered.

Daily Law: Examine the faults you see in others and how they are in you as well.

he will replace you with someone less intelligent, less attractive, less threatening

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after.

If people with natural gifts also possess a good work ethic and have some luck in life, envy will follow them wherever they go.

Test for Envy

People who are envious cannot help feeling some glee when they hear of the bad luck of those they envy.

The avenue was designed by Reichsminister Albert Speer and completed in 1957. It is one hundred and twenty-three meters wide and five-point-six kilometers in length. It is both wider, and two and a half times longer, than the Chaps Elysees in Paris. Higher, longer, bigger, wider, more expensive...even in victory, thought March, Germany has a parvenu's inferiority complex. Nothing stands on its own. Everything has to be compared with what the foreigners have....

The Germans felt themselves superior to the Italians. The Italians thought the Germans vulgar.

The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive. And am I less to You, my God, than they?

A whore should be judged by the same criteria as other professionals offering services for pay — such as dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, etc. Is she professionally competent? Does she give good measure? Is she honest with her clients? It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

Girls, he reflected, are much odder than dragons. Probably another race entirely.

Bone always outlasts feather

Social psychologist Leon Festinger described a "social comparison process"10 as a human universal. People everywhere compare themselves with others of similar social rank, paying much less attention to those who are either far above them or far below them on the social ladder.

Women, Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, are like mules. He frowned. Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes? Pure poetry, Mat, Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. He does not look so mighty lying there, he said wonderingly. He does not look so much greater than me.

Yamada might be a good general—Mat did not know—but he had never stood a chance against Riselle and that marvelous bosom.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman

She had a temper like a boar caught in briars at the best," Birgitte said softly to no one in particular. "Not at all like anyone close by.

the inequality of values is constant. Gold simply is not brass or iron;

grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others—in Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington.

The One in India has got to be the same as the One in Greece. If it's not, you've got two. The only disagreements among the monists concern the attributes of the One, not the One itself. Since the One is the source of all things and includes all things in it, it cannot be defined in terms of those things, since no matter what thing you use to define it, the thing will always describe something less than the One itself.

Is Euclidian geometry true or is Riemann geometry true? He answered, The question has no meaning. As well ask whether the metric system is true and the avoirdupois system is false; whether Cartesian coordinates are true and polar coordinates are false. One geometry can not be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.