Quotes About Comparison

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

He makes her feel halfway normal by being so much further beyond her.

Did you know they call the tower the "Iron Lady"? Hmm. Isn't that Margaret Thatched called that, too? Frankly, they don't look anything alike to me. For one thing, Maggie has two legs, and the Parisian Iron Lady has four on the floor, like me.

I hated to hound the guy at the sausage table, but I wanted to learn the difference between saucisson à l'âne, donkey sausage, and saucisson du taureau, bull sausage. That donkey stuff tastes, well, just a little different.

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

I read the GAO report, and it reminds me of a review I read of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the magazine Field and Stream. The reviewer of that book knew as much about the real purpose of Lady Chatterley's Lover as the GAO knows about the design and development of submarines.

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren't involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don't know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I'm sure they feel superior to someone.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.

Fifty percent of human DNA is identical to the DNA of a banana. —

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

Courtship is the time during which the girl decides whether or not she can do any better. Anonymous

Ich war ein wenig verstört über unsere offensichtlichen Gemeinsamkeiten, hatte ich doch gemeint, Lichtjahre von ihm entfernt zu sein.

You can either judge someone's hustle or focus on your own.

Of all the women in the world the Parisian woman is the best to look at. When one knows her one discovers that she is not quite so different from other women as one would suppose from the way that she does her hair.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard' I am always tempeted to ask, 'Compared to what?