Quotes About Comparison

Yes, my mother was on about Byron. But who wants to be like Byron? I despise him.

Everyone seemed to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed except me.

My first love, and also my only love. All the best, even Clement, have been shadows by comparison. The necessity of this seems, in my own case, so great that I find it hard to imagine that it is not so with everyone.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.

When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.

We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady's lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five minutes, I stopped and said, sorrowfully, "Wouldn't you rather be kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy?" She frowned and said, "Of course not. If you'd ever been kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy you'd know better than to ask." Remember that. In any direct competition, the old man is bound to win and the young man knows it.

A man without weaknesses serves only to make everyone else conscious of his own imperfections. A primitive poet named Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.

Pero ya lo ve, no se pueden hacer diferencias entre un robot y el mejor de los humanos.

A civilization that is expanding through space will not need our few worlds and will probably be too intellectually advanced to feel the need to batter its way into hegemony here. If, however, we are surrounded by a more lively, a more vibrant civilization, we will wither away by the mere force of the comparison; we will die of the realization of what we have become and of the potential we have wasted.

nos parecemos.

A man without weaknesses serves only to make everyone else conscious of his own imperfections. A primitive poet named Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.' 

Più volte ho pensato che per quanto riguarda il suo comportamento verso gli animali, ogni uomo è un nazista.

It's easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.

Entonces dejé de examinarme en el espejo para compararme con las mujeres perfectas del cine y las revistas y decidí que era bella por la simple razón de que tenía ganas de serlo.

Fourth of July picnic. And by the way, that picnic, like everything else in this land, is a model of efficiency: you drive at top speed, set up in a previously reserved space, spread out the baskets, bolt your food, kick the ball, and rush home to avoid the traffic. In Chile, a similar project would take three days.

A Víctor, su sobrino le resultó indescriptible; todos los críos de esa edad se parecían a Winston Churchill

it is the most Catholic country in the world—more Catholic than Ireland, and certainly much more so than the Vatican.

Has sido soldado por muchos años, Pedro, y todavía crees que nos diferenciamos de los animales…

Los demás tienen más miedo que tú».

El dinero nunca me ha interesado, Pedro, en eso me parezco a Indiana. Me temo que juntos terminaríamos convertidos en una pareja de mendigos.

I don't look bad despite my age, do I? The few friends I have left look like iguanas.