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Quotes About Comparison

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
~ Homer
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
~ Horace
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
~ Horace
Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.
~ Horace Mann
Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.
~ Indro Montanelli
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.
~ Jack London
I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.
~ James Anthony Froude
I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.
~ Jamie Farr
The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again
~ Jennifer Estep
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.
~ Jennifer Estep
In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.
~ Jethro Tull
There are a lot of good looking men on this planet. It seems like once a week someone will tell me, "I know someone who looks like you" and I don't know what say to them except, "Tell them hi."
~ Jim Gaffigan
For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.
~ John Dewey
Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.
~ John Ruskin
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
~ John Selden
Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad
~ Denis Leary
I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.
~ Saoirse Ronan
I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.
~ Simone Elkeles
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
~ Michael Bergin
What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.
~ Keith Olbermann
Don't compare yourself to other MOMS... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.
~ Tanya Masse
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
~ Hobart Brown
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
~ Evan Esar
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
~ Werner Herzog