Quotes About Comparison

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Preference, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

May it please your honour, crimes are ghastly or agreeable only by comparison.

Zachwyt nad kim?: serdeczne uznanie, ?e kto? przypomina nas samych.

Perhaps we look at others and see only the things we don't have.

All heroes' news, like something from the songs, but there's nothing like others' successes to make your own failures sting the worse.

No hay nada como contemplar la desgracia ajena para olvidarse de la propia.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not. "Something

How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!

The old king and his old cunts glowered at the young heir and his young cunts, naught praiseworthy on either side but all jealous of what the others had even so. Matching groups, in many ways; Clover could almost see each warrior squaring up to his counterpart. The mean one, the handsome one, the one who hardly spoke, the one who spoke too much.

Terry was cool, cooler then Ig would ever be, but he was afraid. His fear narrowed his vision so that he couldn't see anything except what he stood to lose.

He was as tall as Lincoln and just as dead.

Harper thought of Hillary Clinton. She

I don't think it's any accident that a slice of pie comes in the exact same shape as a slice of pussy

It tastes better than a rock." Allie tossed back the quarter inch Harper had given her in a single swallow, then made a face. "Oh, God. No it doesn't. This is piss. Like drinking gasoline after someone stirred it with a Butterfinger. Or like a banana smoothie that went rotten. Horrible." "You

Jack: Well, I've never been to New York, but I hear it's for assholes. Odile: It's not. Jack: Well, that's what I heard. Cool people don't live there anymore, They all live here. In Chicago.

People can talk all they want about the Big Ten. About Michigan and Ohio State and Indiana and Kentucky or whatever, but there's no way that compares. They're in different states. Here, we share the same dry cleaners." - Mike Kryzewski

Leonard, you're my hero. When I grow up I want to be just like you. Can I, huh, can I?" "Need some black paint first, but that isn't gonna make you as pretty. And it would be nice if you were a lot less stupid.

More astonishing, perhaps, is that the variation in DNA among members of the human family is actually larger than the variation between humans and chimpanzees.

maintaining a three- to five-year horizon for your stock market investments should give you a large advantage over most investors. It is also the minimum time frame for any meaningful comparison of the risks and results of alternative investment strategies.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.