Quotes About Comparison

The best mode of comprehending the nature of the two Governments, is to look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other.

If you would only look for the God quality and not make any comparison, you would see every human being as you see me; or by looking for the Christ in every face you would bring forth that Christ, or God quality, in all.

No one, either in the nineteenth century or the twentieth, has ever built a persuasive case proving that dinosaurs as a whole were more like reptilian crocodiles than warm-blooded birds. No one has done this because it can't be done.

There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they seize only on the defect he has.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris.

If a man cannot distinguish the difference between the pleasures of two consecutive nights, he has married too early.

If men of imagination and good sense, like you, desert one camp only to join the other; if they cannot keep to the happy medium between two forms of extravagance, we shall always be exposed to the satire of the sophists, who deny all progress, who compare the genius of man to this tablecloth, which, being too short to cover the whole of Signor Giardini's table, decks one end at the expense of the other.

Is not the fraction which you know, in relation to their totality, what a single number is to infinity?

There are husbands, tall and of superior intellect, whose wives have lovers who are ugly, short, or stupid.

Reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

I wondered whether that was the difference between having lost a father and lost a husband.

Let's have no beating about the bush. Not every yahoo in a first-night seat is my peer.

Forced to vote for a Davis, I'll take Jefferson and give you Bette.

My voice has been likened to the mating call of the caribou.

There have been only two geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. But, darling, I think you'd better put Shakespeare first.

This is a problem for Irish writers--our literary forebears are enormous. They stand behind us like Easter Island statues, and we keep trying to measure up to them, leaping towards heights we can't possibly reach. I suppose that's a good thing, but it makes for a painful early life for the writer.

None of them was even your type." "How do you know my type?" "Were they?" Eve asked, her voice tinged with disbelief. She hooked a thumb in Cree's direction. "Is he?" "My type?" Kate shook her head. "Yes." No. Wasn't that the point? The men she dated were like...like seat-fillers at awards ceremonies. One person vacates and another takes his place. Simple as that.

1. When trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of the religion and not its enemies. 2. Don't compare your best to their worst. 3. Leave room for holy envy. (Krister Stendahl's rules of religious understanding)

The Franciscan father Richard Rohr had his eye on a different planetary body when he said, 'We are all of us pointing toward the same moon, and yet we persist in arguing about who has the best finger.

What was it they said about the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of crap being the bucket?