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Quotes About Comparison

A man without a moustache is like a cup of tea without sugar.
~ English proverb
A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman.
~ Wallace Stevens
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.
~ James Gleick, 1993
When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."
~ Alistair Cooke, unverified
A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun.
~ Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
~ Billy Joel, unverified
There may be some things better than sex, and some things may be worse. But there is nothing exactly like it.
~ W. C. Fields
In the country sometimes I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
~ Gore Vidal
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
~ Gore Vidal
Thus, in a world without Islam, the much harsher Jewish critique of Jesus, as expressed in Judaism, still stands.
~ Graham E. Fuller
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
~ Graham Greene
The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.
~ Greg Mortenson
The church today has been compared to a football game with twenty-two people on the field in desperate need of rest, and fifty thousand people in the stands in desperate need of exercise.
~ Greg Ogden
Pastor Bill Hybels says that seekers might look at our lives and ask themselves, "If I become a Christian, am I trading up or trading down?
~ Greg Ogden
Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?
~ Greg Proops
If everything we do and create is done to the best of our ability, then until we compare it to something else, how can it be anything less than great?
~ Gregg Braden
The risk of taking sleeping pills nightly was not much less than the risks of smoking one pack of cigarettes a day.
~ Gregg D. Jacobs
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
~ Groucho Marx
I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.
~ Groucho Marx
If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
~ Groucho Marx
Et maintenant / Tu me ressembles tu me ressembles malheureusement
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Comme Margaret Atwood, je pense que vouloir rencontrer un écrivain parce qu'on aime son livre, c'est comme vouloir rencontrer un canard parce qu'on aime le foie gras.
~ Guillaume Musso
L'Homme il est humain à peu près autant que la poule vole.
~ Guillaume Musso