Quotes About Comparison

Not that science is particularly pure, except compared to politics.

But I can promise you that there's somebody else somewhere else who'll make your god look like a maggot by comparison.

Maybe we only thought we were different from each other out of jealousy

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose," cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all.  It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and to watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl.  Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill.  Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Insecurity is worse than poverty.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

American beer like sex on boat. Both fucking close to water.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbour's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion: it shows the foot to advantage, and furnishes with blushes, and recomposing airs beyond comparison. —Lady Wishfort

Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

It must surely be true that there is no such collective domain of joy as there is of sorrow. You cant be sure that another man's happiness resembles your own. But where the collective of pain is concerned there can be little doubt at all.

Mathematics is not physics. The physical sciences can be weighed against each other. And against what we suppose to be the world. Mathematics cant be weighed against anything.