Quotes About Comparison

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: 'Faster!' He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?