Quotes About Comparison

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

Theoretically, there is always a better place for a person to live, better work to do, a better spouse to wed, better friends to have. But then this person must meet herself coming beck. Theoretically, there always is a better inhabitant of this place, a better member of this community, a better worker, spouse, and friend than she is. This surely describes one of the circles of Hell, and who hasn't traveled around it a time or two?

Theoretically, there is always a better place for a person to live, better work to do, a better spouse to wed, better friends to have. But then this person must meet herself coming back: Theoretically, there always is a better inhabitant of this place, a better member of this community, a better worker, spouse, and friend than she is. This surely describes one of the circles of Hell, and who hasn't traveled around it a time or two?