Quotes About Comparison

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Cuántas Madame Bovary, como en el siglo XIX, hay ahora en Santiago de Chile de dos mil y tantos!

The truly humble person always walks in doubt about his own virtues, and usually those he sees in his neighbors seem more certain and more valuable.

Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head?

I can find nothing with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity. In fact, however acute our intellects may be, they will no more be able to attain to a comprehension of this than to an understanding of God; for, as He Himself says, He created us in His image and likeness.

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden — with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds, swooping birds and sunshine, rain — and most importantly, seeds.

Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.

When I think of the greatness of my job, I am amazed, but on reflection, who is as good as I am? I know of no one.

There is proof that these early kings were taller and had much larger heads than the peasants of Egypt!

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

You say we worship the sun; so do you.

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

In church, does it ever seem to you a kind of game? Hypocritical. Be humble, they say, yet people come in their best clothes. Give penance, yet as they close their eyes and kneel, they compare who is better dressed, the beauty of someone else's wife, the sway of her hips, they think of anything but prayers.

I thought to myself how lucky, how lucky that I jumped at my only chance when I could. Sure, I did not love him, but I was loved. I had everything Corazón had wanted. I had beaten her at every round, yet I felt nothing but a devastating emptiness inside. Y

I was burning up with scorn for all of them – and I dreaded them too, because their lives were achieved and full beside my thwarted unfinished one

La belleza no es una idea absoluta y solo puede apreciarse por contraste.

The One true God may be compared unto the sun and the believer unto a mirror. No sooner is the mirror placed before the sun than it reflects its light. The unbeliever may be likened unto a stone. No matter how long it is exposed to the sunshine, it cannot reflect the sun.

Stop taking advice from people who aren't living the life you want.

People don't like you because they don't see in you the things they like or there is something in you they don't have

[Upon being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer:] Which would you rather be—a victor in the Olympic games, or the announcer of the victor?

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.