Quotes About Comparison

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.

Talk about sloppy seconds. Was there such a thing as sloppy thousandths?

At least she knew where she fell on his list of priorities: right behind Betty.

She couldn't stand them because she couldn't be more like them.

closer she got to forty, the more annoyed she was by people in their twenties.

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape

A house may be large or small; as long as the surrounding houses are equally small it satisfies all social demands for a dwelling. If a palace rises besides the little house, the little house shrinks into a hut.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

I bought an Apple iPad and it was out of date sooner than a real apple would have been. We

Lucinda," she finally returned most cordially, "if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the remainder of my days and must needs choose between your company and that of an organ-grinder's flea-bitten monkey, I should not hesitate a moment before opting for the latter.

They have no sense of humour whatsoever – even Bunty has a sense of humour compared with our hosts. They have united Prussian gloom and Presbyterian dourness in an awesome combination.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.