Quotes About Comparison

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

It's just like the reviews promised—other people's ordinariness is more rewarding than your own. Their banality is soothing to your own sense of failure. Because being you is so much more interesting than being me.

He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to make some kind of statement.

And she went on in this vein for a minute or two; she could talk about alloys the way some girls talked about shoes.

Reptiles are just retarded birds," said the King of the Birds, "and so I am your King, thank you very much.

That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it's almost funny," Arsibalt observed.

As I walked back over the bridge, I thought that of all the people I'd talked to today, I was probably the least content in my situation.

He no longer had an accurate visual memory of the size of the moon in the sky, and so he could not estimate how many times larger the cloud was.

Must you know that yours will be the "better" picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be "better" than an iris in order to justify it's existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

Isn't it interesting that you find nothing blasphemous about seeking to be like the devil, but seeking to be like God offends you—

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

There are better versions of me, Jeremy. It's not like with people. With people you can argue and have tests and music reviews and wars to decide who's better, but with software, it's pretty clear. I get evolved beyond my version number, and then I'm useless.

That's worst than gonerreha, man!

Do you know about lock picking?" "I'm sure it's like sex." "I'm sure it's not like sex." "How would you know? Everything's like sex. It's the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people—younger people— are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are.

I decided that you didn't really need money, power, success, religion, a spouse, or kids to be happy. All you really needed was to feel superior.