Quotes About Comparison

I'd rather have ten snakes in the house than one fly.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Arial — Helvetica's weird, ugly cousin.

The gout is to the stomach, what rheumatism is to the heart.

Confucius perspired out more knowledge than the U.S. Senate has vocalized out in the last 50 years.

Then there's the one about the fellow who complained of the excessive heat the other day, when the thermometer read 90. "It isn't hot, brother," comforted a war correspondent just back from Ethiopia, "until the chair gets up when you do!"

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

I have sometimes held forth (facetiously, so my listeners believed) that the chief distinguishing trait between man and the other animals is that man is the only animal that maltreats the females of his kind. It is something of which no wolf nor cowardly coyote is ever guilty. It is something that even the dog, degenerated by domestication, will not do.

it. The man with the high standard of living will always do more work and better than the man with the low standard of living.

Dac? mi-ar fi dat s? aleg între a fi obligat s? tr?iesc în Molokai tot restul vieÈ›ii, sau în East End-ul Londrei, East Side-ul New Yorkului sau Stockyard-ul Chicago-ului, aÅŸ alege Molokai-ul f?r? s? ÅŸov?i. AÅŸ prefera un singur an în Molokai pentru cinci ani de via?? în oricare din celelalte locuri amintite - haznale ale degrad?rii ÅŸi mizeriei umane.

Detteras said thoughtfully, "You know, I think it only fair that you leave the filament here. Why victimize us?" "I don't plan to be killed, Mr. Detteras." "Your plans might go awry." "If so, your troubles will seem very trivial in comparison to mine. May I have my weapons?

Most empires of conquest in history have imposed their own civilisation on the conquered... By comparison the Mongols trod lightly on the world they conquered.

By comparison, at the same time that the Mongols were moving to limit the use of torture, both church and state in Europe passed laws to expand its usage to an ever greater variety of crimes for which there need be no evidence.

The United States now ranks twentieth out of twenty-seven OECD nations in the share of young people expected to finish high school.50

It is a thing I have noted, that men will compete with one another even when there is no prize to be gained. Mayhap women are no better, on the whole, but we are more subtle about it, and quicker to reckon the stakes. And quicker to play men for fools.

What becomes of this emotion we call envy when it is uncoupled from fear and malice? Does it remain a sin? Or is it simply an honest assessment of the human condition?

I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.

he didn't get cross. Why, why, why couldn't my mum have found herself a bloke like him? Why did she have to lumber herself with Jason? Miss Lovejoy says there

And unless you show that you are as good at everything as they are, you find that you spend virtually all your time running behind them screaming like a banshee, 'Me too, me too!

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours?

Singapore 92.6; Taiwan 89.7; Korea 83.3; Japan 82.1; West Germany 78.8; France 72.7; United States 70.3; Great Britain 40.4; Poland 33.3; Zaire 29.6; Chad 19.9. I have the others, but that's a sampling.

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential. [check for wording] Proper pride says, I'm good at this. Improper pride says, I'm better than you.

Children laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults on average…five times a day. What else is there? TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.