Quotes About Comparison

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.

Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.

The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things, but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States, but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan, but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe, they nothing prove.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket.

Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?

I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.