Quotes About Comparison

What would Jo say if she saw you now? asked Amy impatiently

I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor, and can't enjoy my life as other girls do. It's a shame!

You look like Balzac's 'Femme Peinte Par Elle — Meme'," he said, as he fanned her with one hand and held her coffee cup in the other.

At four o'clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Then Jo and Meg, with a detachment of the bigger boys, set forth the supper on the grass, for an out-of-door tea was always the crowning joy of the day.

If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what

I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think

Highty-tighty! Is this the way you take my advice, Miss? You'll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you've tried love in a cottage and found it a failure. It can't be a worse one than some people find in big houses, retorted Meg.

You said, the other day, you thought we were a deal happier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.

Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball-dresses and bouquets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merry-makings of all kinds, and saw money lavished on trifles which would have been so precious to her. Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward every one sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all

Where Bill had squandered his considerable talents, John had succeeded on a scale that made Bill look cheap and tawdry.

His similarity to his father in thought and outlook is almost weird.

the two J. P. Morgans even walked and talked alike.

Trying to equalize his status with his brothers, Frank lived on a lavish scale that far outstripped his income.

It would be equivalent to $500 million today.)

Eliza increased her dependence on John, as if training him to be everything Bill wasn't.

One also suspects that the couple clashed as a result of their very similarity.

Despite their similarities, Pratt was a timid executive who lacked Rockefeller's audacity and often felt slighted by him.

All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.

We all have our little sorrows, ducky, you're not the only one. The littler you are, the larger the sorrow. You think you loved him? What about me?

Últimamente la gente esta agarrando la detestable costumbre de ser menor que yo.

La mayoría de los hombres tienen el dedo anular más largo que el dedo índice, y la mayoría de las mujeres tienen el índice más largo que el anular.

He saw only that misery could be endured in the midst of misery. But set adjacent to the good fortune of others, it became far, far harder to bear.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.