Quotes About Comparison

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Envy is a kind of praise.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

Perfectionism is slow death.

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Why don't you get a haircut; you look like a chrysanthemum.

Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

As poor as a church mouse.

Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

The proud hate pride - in others.

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

Mine is better than ours.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Good is not good, where better is expected.