Quotes About Comparison

We can't all be like him, or his brother, or Helms, or the rest of those people.' 'No,' she said sadly. 'But I wish to God we could be something else.

Every generation has tended to look on the past with an air of condescension. I call it history snobbery, and your generation is smitten with one of the worst cases ever.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln.

His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

I shall not look upon his like again.

My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.

He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.

The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He's sophisticated, he brings her flowers and candy, he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else.

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."

Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, Why should I? He never reads any of mine.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

No one is content with his own lot.

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

We all envy other people's luck.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.