Quotes About Comparison

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.

it's better than a stick in the eye

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush

My sister Laura's bigger than me And lifts me up quite easily. I can't lift her, I've tried and tried; She must have something heavy inside.

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

Your comparison with your own performance is better, is healthy, but if you start comparing with others, in all probability, you will feel jealous.

It is Maya that makes you feel, "This man is inferior and the other man is superior.

But however much that virtue may be praised and cried up, which without true piety is the slave of human glory, it is not at all to be compared even to the feeble beginnings of the virtue of the saints, whose hope is placed in the grace and mercy of the true God.

Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. For of two things which have alike ceased to be, the one is not better, the other worse—the one greater, the other less.

What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness

Who needs a French man when there is French cheese? Half as stinky and twice as smart.

I often wonder what it is makes bints pair off like this, one lovely and one horrible. You see it all the time and it must have turned more lads against one another than nearly anything else because if you're hunting in pairs somebody's got to have the horror.

Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. MARK TWAIN

To this day, the percentage of abstainers in the United States—about one-third of the adult population—is, along with Ireland's, the highest among Western nations.

I am not one to compare long melodies as did Mozart. I can't get beyond short themes. But what I can do, is to utilize such a theme, paraphrase it and extract everything that is in it, and I don't think there's anybody today who can match me at that.

For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.

Y, además, ¿no es mucho más fácil creerse un gran hombre cuando uno no tiene ni la menor idea de que haya existido alguna vez un Rembrandt, un Beethoven, un Dante o un Napoleón?

The trouble about Mr Mybug was that ordinary subjects, which are not usually associated with sex even by our best minds, did suggest sex to Mr Mybug, and he pointed them out and made comparisons and asked Flora what she thought about it all.

she came to the conclusion that if Aunt Ada was mad, then she, Flora, was one of the Marx Brothers.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.