Quotes About Comparison

A pound of feathers is heavier than one of gold by 22 percent, because plumage and precious metals in the United States are weighed according to different pounds. With

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Having seen this reproduction, one can go to the National Gallery to look at the original and discover what the reproduction lacks. Alternatively one can forget about the quality of the reproduction and simply be reminded, when one sees the original, that it is a famous painting of which somewhere one has already seen a reproduction. But in either case the uniqueness of the original now lies in it being the original of a reproduction.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

My psychiatrist can lick your psychiatrist.

Thus, appraisal is a complex process in which two main steps can be distinguished: (a) comparing input with standards that have developed within the organism during its lifetime; (b) selecting certain general forms of behaviour in preference to other forms in accordance with the results of comparisons previously made.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Marriage is very nice but there's nothing so wonderful about it. One little golden casket's very like another.

yet cancer rates in New England are higher than in Colorado—an inverse effect.

There are two kinds of fools: one who says this is old and therefore good, and the other who says this is new and therefore better.

you're more likely to die while horseback riding (one serious adverse event every 350 or so exposures) than from taking Ecstasy (one serious adverse event every 10,000 or so exposures).

peas in a pod.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

No poem lovely as a tree, she said (though I'd never once thought to compare)

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

Some say, that Signor Bononcini,Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;Others aver, to him, that HandelIs scarcely fit to hold a candle.Strange! that such high dispute should be'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)

Why is Old Jack a better general than Moses?" was the question they liked to ask. "Because it took Moses forty years to lead the Israelites through the wilderness," the answer went, "and Old Jack would have double-quicked them through in three days."10

Reasoning by analogy is like filling balloons with liquid helium. It won't fly.

For so blindly do we all rush in the direction of self-love, that every one thinks he has a good reason for exalting himself and despising all others in comparison.

Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves—our self-love ruins us with such blindness. If, in fact, God has gifted us with something that is good in itself, we immediately make it the basis for praising ourselves to such a degree that we not only swell up but almost burst with pride.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

As a consequence, we must infer that man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This