Quotes About Comparison

As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and closer to the order of the Romans than the Turks.

I would much prefer to have a baby gorilla than a baby human.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso mas alto es el peor amueblado.

La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso más alto es el peor amueblado.

Kendi deÄŸeri olmayan bir insan baÅŸkalar?n?n deÄŸerini hiçbir zaman çekemez. Çünkü insan gönlü, ya kendi üstünlüÄŸünü ya da baÅŸkalar?n?n kötülüÄŸü ile beslenmek ister.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

I want that Tesla not because I care so much about global warming, but because it is trendy and expensive, and my neighbor is still driving a BMW.

Yani Jaguar istememizin nedeni güzel arabalara bay?lmam?z deÄŸil, komÅŸumuzun BMW'sini gölgede b?rakmak isteyiÅŸimizdir.

The ability to compare, and to evaluate, other human beings was the fountainhead of human unhappiness...

Has anyone ever weighed a 'lighthouse' on a scale", Is a 'lighthouse' lighter than 'greenhouse' or a 'smokehouse'?

One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.

Éstos deben joder más que unos zapatos nuevos

What can I do, I like Balzac better than Dickens, forgive me.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

What's the odd one out between an egg, a drum, and a potato?' Ronan shook his head, mystified. 'You can beat an egg. You can beat a drum. But you can't beat a potato. D'you get it, do you?

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Sweetes' li'l' feller—Everybody knows;Dunno what ter call 'im,But he's mighty lak' a rose!

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.