Quotes About Comparison

Only a fool is so innocent as to think he can measure up to a woman's first love.

When one is travelling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it is brigther and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparasion to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

A father is nowhere near as valuable as a spoon.

Her self-programming was chemical. Mine was computational. It was a draw.

Some theologians argue that one kind of grace is better than another, and that some people think they're experiencing "divine" grace when it's actually just "common." To me, that's like bickering about what color God's eyes are. (They're hazel, in case you were wondering.)

How can you know things have changed, Julian, if you don't know how things were?

Once, just once, Sally had suggested that Daphne worked too hard. "And now with this big house. . ." Daphne had turned to the house, looked up at the three narrow stories, and said, "Only in New York would this be considered a big house. It has one bathroom." She turned back to her mother. "One bathroom," she said, in a kind of wonder.

I reckon he's jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he's got in his little finger.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

like the Catholic Church, universities today bear a striking structural resemblance to what they were

The Korean girls I knew were so moody they made Sylvia Plath seem as dull as C-SPAN.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

The beauty we find is from the comparison we make of the things with themselves, seeing their likeness and difference

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

At no time did anyone throw his cap in the air and rejoice that another painter, capable of equaling Hals at his best, had been discovered.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

Aw, dad... this isn't another one of those "oh, you're LUCKY you didn't have to peck dry corn and uncooked rice off the dirt!" kind of thing is it?

Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me.

Non t'accorgi, Diavolo, che tu sei bella come un Angelo?

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.