Quotes About Comparison

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house.

You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

My wife loves Europe but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

Second class travel is better than third class walking.

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Marriage is what marriage is... It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!

I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.