Quotes About Comparison

My book boyfriend is better than your book boyfriend!

Magazines. Yeah. That's the only thing that made any sense. She had picked each girl out of Flawless Friends Forever, I'm sure. In comparison, I felt frumpy and way outclasses, like I'd been selected from Homeless Dogs Weekly.

I wasn't into girls, but...wow. This one could probably turn anyone. Not even Kat and her catalog friends could compare.

though he is a god, and destroying him will prove the most difficult task of your existence, he is very much like you

Whenever I think about the Enkidu story, I think Kipling really missed out on a much better ending for The Jungle Book.

Each joke suffers in comparison to its neighbors.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

He was several inches taller than her, so that allowed for a fair amount of condescension.

Now I'm five foot eleven and a half inches—as tall as my mom and a good two inches taller than my dad. My father tells people I've grown so much, he's going to put my supper into pickle jars and sell it under the name Incredible Growth Formula.

My face turns red just seeing her. She's a looker. If Pete were here, he'd whistle.

never, ever compare anybody to that particular person, since he was so much more evil than anyone else in history

Why me?' cries out the unsuccessful entrepreneur. Or rather 'Why not me?' 'Why not us?' chorus his equally unsuccessful investors. 'Look at our product. Is it not as good--nay, better--than the product that beat us out?'.... In fact, feature for feature, the less successful product is often arguably superior.

As leene was his hors as is a rake.

Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives.

After two or more centuries of experimentation, socialists should be able to point to an alternative system that works, rather than comparing the actual world with an idealized system of their imagination.

The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

El simio más perfecto no puede dibujar un simio. Sólo el hombre puede hacerlo. Pero también sólo él lo considera una ventaja.

I don't see how My Fair Lady and Frankenstein are the same. Oh, wait a minute. Yes I do.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Gorgeous. Gorgeous home," my mother had said. Seeing it myself, I understood why she liked visiting here so much, and why she always seemed so disappointed when she returned home to ours. It was obvious, wasn't it? Who wouldn't have wanted to trade their lives for this dream?

Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?