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Quotes About Comparison

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
~ Josh Billings
Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.
~ Kingsley Amis
The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.
~ Kristan Higgins
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them
~ Megan Amram
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
~ Paul Newman
As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
~ Phil Hartman
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
~ Philip Sidney
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
~ Publilius Syrus
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
~ Odell Shepard
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
~ Ron Fournier
Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.
~ Shawn Burr
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
~ Sue Grafton
Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is.
~ Tim McGraw
It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
~ Vijay Singh
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.
~ Walter Johnson
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
~ William Butler Yeats
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
~ William Faulkner
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
~ William Penn
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
~ William Shakespeare
Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
~ William Shakespeare