Quotes About Comparison

What's the difference between a human being and an animal?" "Intelligence, I suppose." Audrey looked at me for guidance. "We're smarter. Wouldn't you agree?" I nodded. "As long as we're writing the tests.

Dorcas's skin was flecked with little golden freckles, and she was so slender that I was always aware of her bones; yet she was more desirable in her imperfections than Jolenta had ever been in the lushness of her flesh.

You fare by love as owls do by light.

El más sabio de todos es el que no se preocupa ni pizca de que alguien sea más rico que él.»

What difference is there betwixt an idolater and an avaricious man, but that the idolater has, perhaps, one or two idols, whereas the avaricious man has many?

Oon of us two moste bowen, doutelees; And sith a man is moore resonable Than womman is, ye moste been suffrable.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

There is no such thing as a great man or a great woman. People believe in them, just as they used to believe in unicorns and dragons. The greatest man or woman is 99 per cent just like yourself.

MRS. FARRELL. I wouldnt compare risks run to bear living people into the world to risks run to blow them out of it. A mother's risk is jooty: a soldier's nothin but divilmint.

DiÅŸ aÄŸr?s? çekenler diÅŸleri saÄŸlam olanlar?; yoksulluk çekenler de paras? çok olanlar? mutlu san?rlar.

El hecho de que un creyente sea más feliz que un escéptico no es más relevante que el que un borracho sea más feliz que un sobrio.

True grace is recognizing and appreciating what you have in your hands instead of trying to keep up with everybody else's "prosperity.

Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.