Quotes About Comparison

You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

those doughnuts are a lot better than having a mule kick you in the head, There was no argument there.

His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Just. There they go, ding dong in for the day. Good lack! a fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Proving yourself is a dangerous trap.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

In George Bernard Shaw's words, 'The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Next to the true beauty and magic of the real world, supernatural spells and stage tricks seem cheap and tawdry by comparison. The magic of reality is neither supernatural nor a trick, but – quite simply – wonderful. Wonderful, and real. Wonderful because real.

Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills.

The American comedian Cathy Ladman observes that 'All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

Perhaps Islam is analogous to a carnivorous gene complex, Buddhism to a herbivorous one.

There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn't wrong too?

Dan Dennett reminds us that the common cold is universal to all human peoples in much the same way as religion is, yet we would not want to suggest that colds benefit us.

Compared with the Old Testament's psychotic delinquent, the deist God of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment is an altogether grander being:

It is a commonplace that good historians don't judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.

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

Le fait qu'un croyant est plus heureux qu'un sceptique n'est pas plus pertinent que le fait qu'un homme ivre est plus heureux qu'un homme sobre ».

McLaughlin is a lean, dark man who looks a little like the TV version of Boston Blackie.

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

Would you think he was anybody like you?