Quotes About Comparison

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

Bolje je spavati sa trijeznim kanibalom negoli s pijanim krš?aninom.

Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes

for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.

The term 'Savage' is, I conceive, often misapplied, and indeed, when I consider the vices, cruelties, and enormities of every kind that spring up in the tainted atmosphere of a feverish civilization, I am inclined to think that so far as the relative wickedness of the parties is concerned, four or five Marquesan Islanders sent to the United States as Missionaries might be quite as useful as an equal number of Americans despatched to the Islands in a similar capacity.

Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.

Quiqueg era como George Washington desarrollado a lo caníbal.

Qué son los comprensibles terreros del hombre comparados con los terrores y prodigios entremezclados de Dios?

But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?

Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.

orice lucru bun pe lume e aÈ™a fiindc? se afl? în contrast cu altceva. Nimic nu poate fi judecat dac? e comparat doar cu el însuÈ™i.

there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.

Now I'm not a Nazi, I've never said the Führer is a thousand percent right. But he's a winner, damn it all. He gets things done, like Roosevelt. And you want us to get rid of him?

Rothmore rasped, Do you think an IQ is something real, like a nose? It's a ...number dreamed up by...psychologists, and all it proves is that farmers aren't as smart as psychologists. If the farmers had enough time to wast to make up an IQ system, the psychologists would all come out morons and the farmers geniuses.

Individually the Germans were remarkably like Americans; he thought it curious that both peoples had the eagle for their national emblem. The Germans were the same sort of businesslike go-getters: direct, roughly humorous, and usually reliable and able.

los hombre que si bien reconocen que otros son más sagaces, más elocuentes o más cultos, difícilmente llegan a creer que haya muchos tan sabios como ellos mismos, ya que cada uno ve su propio talento a la mano, y el de los demás hombres a distancia. [...]" (Hobbes, Leviatán. Cap XIII.).

Nation-watching would be simple if it could be like bird-watching.