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Quotes About Comparison

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
~ Francis Bacon
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
~ George MacDonald
I've never met another man I'd rather be.
~ Charles Bukowski
Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
~ Leonard Ravenhill
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
~ James Cagney
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
~ Mark Twain
Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.
~ Mae West
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
~ R. C. Sproul
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
~ Baltasar Gracian
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
~ Zhuangzi
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
~ John Calvin
If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.
~ Xenophanes
I prefer men to cauliflowers
~ Virginia Woolf
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
~ C. S. Lewis
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
~ Sonny Bono
No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
~ Ty Cobb
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
~ William Penn
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
~ Helena Rubinstein
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.
~ Grace Metalious
Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
~ Robert Breault
Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.
~ Billy Rose