Quotes About Comparison

Unfortunately I'm not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads…Rilke, Bergengruen, Binding, Wiechert; I regard the last three as being below our level and the first as being decidedly unhealthy.

nous avons de quoi nous vêtir et nous loger, mais nous aimerions tellement avoir des vêtements plus remarquables,

nous avons de quoi nous vêtir et nous loger, mais nous aimerions tellement avoir des vêtements plus remarquables, une demeure plus vaste, plus confortable.

The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.

I have seen many a face that was more good-looking — never one that looked half so good.

Ogni vero dolore viene scritto su lastre di una sostanza misteriosa al paragone della quale il granito è burro.

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.

Agora até um frango tem mais tecnologia do que carne.

This little pile of shit, heaped here before my door, is mine, and I challenge any to malign its form. This little heap is my thing, my badge, a tangible sign of that which distinguishes me from, or likens me to, my neighbor. It is also what distinguishes him from me. His heap will never be mine. Whether he be friend or foe, this alone will allow me to recognize if we are alike: neat, clean, negligent, disgusting, or obviously rotten.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

When people complained, Vichy, unconvincingly, sought to justify its moves by pointing out that one of the reasons France lost the war was that it had too many bars, one bar for every 80 persons compared with one for every 270 people in Germany.

Their mutual interest in wine soon led to a close friendship. Many evenings, the two would get together in the great library of Château Lascombes to compare wine notes and great vintages they had drunk. Almost always it was done over a special bottle of wine.

I will not flirt with you or embarrass you. Besides, I am quite sure that if you were willing to marry a Bennet girl, it would be Lizzie. I cannot imagine any man who truly knows her will ever find another woman who can compare to her. I suspect knowing her has made your search for a suitable wife even harder." Darcy

It's about ten times the size of the Bible — and unlike the Bible, contains no good news.

My feeling has been that once we're actually in God's presence, we will never return to earth again, because it will be empty and meaningless by comparison

It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.

Encyclopedia looked at the watermelon. "Stabbing a watermelon isn't against the law," he pointed out. "I mean, it's not the same as stabbing a person.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid.