Quotes About Comparison

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

It is hard to compare over generations. I think a lot of the top talent is choosing other fields. We look pretty hard - we put a lot of time and effort into finding talent.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.