Quotes About Comparison

Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there, the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel is but a bag of bones.

Women were different from men in such matters. Was it that they were, instead of more sensitive, as reputed, more callous, and less romantic ; or were they more heroic?

The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.

I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?—Job xii. 3.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

Esta mujer significa mucho más para mí, incluso muerta, de lo que tú hayas significado, signifiques o puedas significar.

Women may be bad, but they are not so bad as men in these things!

His dog waited for his meals in a way so like that in which Oak waited for the girl's presence, that the farmer was quite struck with the resemblance, felt it lowering, and would not look at the dog. However, he continued to watch through the hedge for her regular coming, and thus his sentiments towards her were deepened without any corresponding effect being produced upon herself.

La razón por la que pudo atraparme es porque ambos somos iguales

it is incident most to them that are conscious of the fewest abilities in themselves who are forced to keep themselves in their own favor by observing the imperfections of other men. And therefore much laughter at the defects of others is a sign of pusillanimity. For of great minds, one of the proper works is to help and free others from scorn, and compare themselves only with the most able.

Unfortunately, most Americans think that they are emulating the rich by immediately consuming any upward swing in their cash flow.

What you probably don't know is that your neighbor in the $300,000 house next to yours bought his house only after he became wealthy. You bought yours in anticipation of becoming wealthy. That day may never come. Each

In trying to act rich by imitating big-spending rich people, who is Rodney really impressing? Certainly it is not the rich! In reality, he impresses only himself and some of his friends who enjoy impersonating the glitteringly rich.

Unfortunately, most Americans think that they are emulating the rich by immediately consuming any upward swing in their cash flow. But the millionaire-next-door

The North method took only a few hours. Contrast this with Dr. South's automobile-purchasing crusade—a process that took him at least sixty hours. And, of course, Dr. North likes to keep his cars for a long time. So his allocation of purchasing time is spread over several years. On average, he devotes less than an hour a year to purchasing motor vehicles. But Dr. South likes to buy a new car every year. Thus, his sixty-hour project is typically allocated to only one year. FEARS

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Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody. Thomas Jefferson

All right, Herr Stern, if God made man in His image, which race is most like him? Is a Pole more like him than a Czech?

But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.

How does it happen that even today a couple of ordinary French stonemasons, or a carpenter and his apprentice, can put up a dovecote or a barn that has more architectural perfection than the piles of eclectic stupidity that grow up at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the campuses of American universities?

In every area of thought we must rely ultimately on our judgments, tested by reflection, subject to correction by the counterarguments of others, modified by the imagination and by comparison with alternatives.

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

Making Final Fantasy X, anyway, look like an Etch A Sketch.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.