Quotes About Comparison

What if it isn't so much Indianapolis trying to be Brooklyn, as Brooklyn wanting to capture something of Indianapolis?

Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

some day let them say of him: 'He is better by far than his father,' 480  as he comes in from the fighting

Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.

Few sons are the equals of their fathers; 310  most fall short, all too few surpass them.

For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse; few are better than their father is.

estos maratones de baile guardan bastante parecido con las corridas de toros.

Slavery existed in the African states, and it was sometimes used by Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out, the "slaves" of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe—in other words, like most of the population of Europe.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.

There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon — 'like sending a goat to tend the cabbage'.

Young George spent more money on one day of his Inauguration Ceremonies than Richard Nixon did on his whole Campaign in 1972—and Nixon was crucified as a Criminal Spendthrift with the ethics of a snake.

I envied Yeamon and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all of my happiness seem dull.

An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world.

The humble have once again exhibited more insight than the exalted

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.

Of all of them, I'd choose the Walther PPK 7.65 mm. It only came fourth after the Japanese M-14, the Russian Tokarev and the Sauer M-38. But I like its light trigger pull and the extension spur of the magazine gives a grip that should suit 007. It's a real stopping gun. Of course it's about a .32 calibre as compared with the Beretta's .25, but I wouldn't recommend anything lighter. And you can get ammunition for the Walther anywhere in the world.

On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J.

according to the authors of Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, "Twice as many women who went to college have given or received oral sex as compared to those who did not finish high school and twice as many of those better-educated women had or received oral sex the last time they had sex." Whereas

Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

Religions, moral systems, her own included, wee like peaks in a dense mountain range seen from a great ditance, none obviously higher, more important, truer than another. What was to judge?

It's hilarious to recognize how completely another person resembles your imperfect self.