Quotes About Comparison

If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.

I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.

I suspect that what make hedonists so angry when they think about overeachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.

We hate ourselves...We hate our own failures and our own weaknesses. We hate ourselves because we cannot help comparing what we are with what we might be. Our discontent is the voice of God in us, prodding us to live up to ourselves. Until we recognize and admit this we will always turn savagely outward, destroying other things because ourselves are at fault.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

But search the land of living men,Where wilt thou find their like again?

But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again.

He has the gift of a voice and I have the gift of the grateful ear, and God has brought us together. It is a sharing of wealth, is it not? But if you do not get that, what you do is you fall into resentment, envy, and comparison. The spirit of comparison is evil.

Sooner or later you must confront this demon of comparison.

During the one hundred years after the beginning of the gold rush, the output of California's gold totaled about $2 billion. All the gold produced in a century was worth less than the total value of one year's agricultural output of the state in the 1960s.

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

A barking dog is more useful than a sleeping lion

It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.

I'd never compared myself to being dead before, but it was the only thing I could think of. The only thing worse than the situation I faced.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.