Quotes About Comparison

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

A man can never compete with a woman's father

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?