Quotes About Comparison

Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it's an ideal we don't all achieve. But in this modern world the great thing is to have an ideal. Achieving it is considerably less important.

Jealousy is a terrible thing. "It doth mock the meat it feeds upon" is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy.

Dr. Brown considered all engineers to be nothing more than glorified carpenters and plumbers.

Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West's Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.

The Dean's complaining to his Faculty. "Why do you scientists need such expensive equipment? Why can't you be like the Math Department, which only needs a blackboard and a wastepaper basket? Better still, like the Department of Philosophy. That doesn't even need a wastepaper basket…

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

The French produce the best second-raters in the world.

If you sat down, you were heavier than when you stood up.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?' 'No, I have not.' 'Well, well, such is fame!

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.

It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.

No me cabe duda que usted cree hacerme una lisonja comparándome con Dupin. Pero en mi opinión, Dupin era un hombre que valía muy poco. […] Sin duda, poseía algo de genio analítico; pero no era, en modo alguno, un fenómeno, según parece imaginárselo Poe.

The natives were Cucama Indians, an amiable but degraded race, with mental powers hardly superior to the average Londoner.

Confío en no ser más torpe que mis semejantes, pero siempre me oprimía una sensación de estupidez al tratar con Sherlock Holmes.

I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you.

It should worry you to walk around naked…with so little to show." – Tristan "I'm in no mood to watch you two play mine's bigger." – Evalle "It's not necessary. I already know which one's bigger." – Tristan "Must be true what they say about the strides they're making with implants." – Storm

There are those, too, who befriend the weak because they feel themselves unworthy of the strong. Because they cannot bring themselves to honour abilities greater than their own.

I think, for instance, that no one can really love a person who is not superior in every way.

She's not my first wife, you know, but my third. And a third wife, they say, is like the December sun.

Just recently, she had an engagement party for her daughter. Great God! May you and I have a third of what that party cost her.

Nothing lasts forever. And no one is ever satisfied. We're tired of going from door to door for kvawdehz and nikelz. Better your own slice of bread than the next man's loaf.

Pinye said Canada was in Canada. To be exact, it was in America. That is, Canada and America were the same place, with a difference