Quotes About Comparison

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

If there's anything more annoying than a boy praising another girl's beauty to your face, I can't think what it is.

My English is much better than my sister Elisa's," he adds affably. "Your English ees better," Elisa snaps, "because you love to talk to foreign girls. All foreign girls," she adds, sweeping her cold, dark, mascaraed gaze around at us to emphasize her message: that her brother is a big slut and we shouldn't be flattered by his attentions.

So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee—or Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin—are points which to this day remain unsettled.

Expert Tip: "The day will come when you fervently wish that you are only as fat as you were the FIRST time you thought you were fat."—Michelle Loyet, MAW, whom I've been on vacation with numerous times

It was a Mexican cigarette and not so tightly packed as the brand she had smoked in the United States but in the past week or so she had gotten used to it and now liked it as well as American cigarettes.

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.