Quotes About Comparison

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

The difference between two men is usually a woman.

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?