Quotes About Comparison

Coconnas : ...et que pour être querellé , j'aime mieux encore l'être par de jolies lèvres comme les vôtres que par une bouche de travers comme la sienne.

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro.

Democratic institutions strongly tend to promote the feeling of envy.

The Americans of the United States stand in precisely the same position with regard to the peoples of South America as their fathers, the English, occupy with regard to the Italians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of daily consumption from England, because they are less advanced in civilization and trade.

When the inhabitant of a democratic country compares himself individually with all those about him, he feels with pride that he is the equal of any one of them; but when he comes to survey the totality of his fellows, and to place himself in contrast to so huge a body, he is instantly overwhelmed by the sense of his own insignificance and weakness.

Looking back century by century to remotest Antiquity, I see nothing that resembles what I see before me.

The French lawyer is simply a man extensively acquainted with the statutes of his country; but the English or American lawyer resembles the hierophants of Egypt, for, like them, he is the sole interpreter of an occult science.

When we set children against one another in contests—from spelling bees to awards assemblies to science "fairs" (that are really contests), from dodge ball to honor rolls to prizes for the best painting or the most books read—we teach them to confuse excellence with winning, as if the only way to do something well is to outdo others.

To be human means to feel inferior.

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.

Likely it was true that the flaws you saw in other women you didn't notice in yourself.

Perhaps that was what my mother disliked most. I resembled her. I could not help but wonder if for some women, that was the worst sin of all.

The story she then told was as all attempts at sympathy are: an effort to match in form and size and detail what another has known: to hold one experience next to another the way lovers and children match fingers and hands, as if these two, side by side, are linked by their likeness, are both identical and unique.

There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women's domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

Like snowflakes, none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before.

Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.

She looks like a wet cat.

I say it cause I'm a fool,' I say. 'I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't.

Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?

Este clar c? femeile sunt mai deÅŸtepte decît b?rbaÅ£ii. GîndiÅ£i-v? — cel mai bun prieten al lor sînt diamantele; cel mai bun prieten al b?rbaÅ£ilor este cîinele.

Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.