Quotes About Comparison

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold, half-French and difficult to stir.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

Scenery here in Canada is by the mile, whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur, vastness and expansive views.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Change must be measured from a known base line.

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

Comparisons are odious.

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks.

In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.