Quotes About Comparison

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

I constantly see old people flushed and excited by the prospect of some anticipated pleasure which altogether fails to ruffle the tranquillity of their serene grandchildren. Are we, I wonder, quite such genuine boys and girls now as our seniors were in their time? Has the great advance in education taken rather too long a stride;

I have said to myself a thousand times that I should be happy if I were but as ignorant as my old neighbor; and yet it is a happiness which I do not desire.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.

A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said I've a pretty rose tree, And I passed the sweet flower o'er. Then I went to my pretty rose tree, To tend her by day and by night; But my rose turned away with jealousy, And her thorns were my only delight.

Imitation is criticism.

I may be a shit writer,' I remember him saying once, 'but I'm richer than any of the good ones.

How a company is perceived, Bezos concluded, largely came down to how it behaved, and how its behaviors compared with those of its direct competitors. "Rudeness is not cool," he warned his colleagues. "Defeating tiny guys is not cool," he added. "Polite is cool," he argued, "defeating bigger, unsympathetic guys is cool.

ethnocentrism—the tendency to evaluate the customs of other groups according to one's own cultural standards.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)

Como tío Billy suele decir, un hombre no es tan diferente de un caballo o una mula, a fin de cuentas, salvo en que una mula o un caballo tiene un poco más de sentido común.

YaÅŸayan herhangi bir insan herhangi ölü bir insandan iyidir ama yaÅŸayan ya da ölü hiçbir insan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸayan ya da ölü insandan çok daha iyi deÄŸildir.

But Southern California, in its sprawling, edgeless blandness, was losing its baseline status in my mind. It was no longer the place by which all other places had to be measured.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people, and protect themselves from talented people . . .

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

In Franklins, a million weighs twenty-two pounds. If you want to keep your weight down, go with the Swiss thousand-franc notes.

People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?" "Why?" asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expansive mode of expression on Brown's part. "Because they have better stuff," Brown had replied. "No other reason.

he was more than a dolphin, but from another dolphin's point of view he might have seemed like something less.

I think women are foolish to pretend they're equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding