Quotes About Comparison

As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.

the model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then

Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

she seemed both proud and scared that I was where she had once wished to be.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say ... but i can say they are certainly no worse.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250 000 in Britain.

Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India's Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which domestic companies in Zhongguancun have not yet mastered, and Zhongguancun's output badly trails Bangalore's. That's just a reflection of something fundamental: "modern" China cannot keep up with "backward" India when it comes to information technology.

The taste of the wine (1) had a sweet taste (2) when I took a taste (3), which was too strong for my taste (4) and therefore not to my taste (5), though I may not have the best taste (6) when compared with your taste (7).

repentance is, first and foremost, an acknowledgement of that deeper pool of evil that lies resident in every one of us and which is ready to explode at any moment. (...) A deeper repentance means that I must examine my heart for such potential waywardness and renounce the tendency to compare myself with others, to explain away my failures, and to whine if someone isn't merciful to me.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Europe has nothing to recommend it but its old age, and the Petrified forest in Arizona makes a Sucker out of it for old age. Why, that forest was there and doing business before Nero took his first Violin lesson.

The difference between a cupcake and a muffin: cupcakes come topped with an obscene amount of frosting. Muffins are cupcakes that you fool yourself into thinking of as a healthy breakfast food because they do not have a mountain of frosting on top.

Herbal tea tastes so much better when it's coffee.

I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

The toughest part of a diet isn't watching what you eat. It's watching what other people eat.

Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

A man may take as much exercise in walking a mile up and down stairs, as in ten on level ground.

Religions are like farts — yours is good but everyone else's stinks.

Put cream and sugar on a fly, and it tastes very much like a black raspberry.