Quotes About Comparison

Why clone cats when there's perfectly good Russell Crowe lying around?

?nanmayan insan?n, sevemeyen insan?n, ac?yamayan, k?zamayan insan?n köpek le?inden fark? yok.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but either way…you've got to mow it.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

I can't screw up Alabama... We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.

I am bored in France, especially as everyone resembles Voltaire.

Six years of uninterrupted happiness had rolled away, since my brother's marriage. The sound of war had been heard, affording objects of comparison.

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.

Dobyns argued that the Indian population in 1491 was between 90 and 112 million people. Another way of saying this is that when Columbus sailed more people lived in the Americas than in Europe.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

After adjusting the comparison of index funds to actively managed funds for survivorship bias, taxes, and loads, the dominance of index funds reaches insurmountable proportions. Once

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

But the animal has no veil. Dogs better treated than Afghan women. (Même l'animal n'a de voile. Chien mieux traité que l'afghane ?)

We are jealous our close neighbors, but not the sun and its care. (Nous jalousons nos proches voisins, - Mais pas le soleil et ses soins.) [Fables1, The Ant / La Fourmi]

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?

Why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that.

Every man thinks his own geese swans.