Quotes About Comparison

the American-affiliated students were incomparably better informed than the locals—incomparably more intelligent all round, to put it bluntly—but the one thing the Americans could not do to save their lives was recite the verse in front of them.

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

You're the Nile,You're the Tower of Pisa,You're the smileOn the Mona Lisa….But if, Baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. For it is the only suffering that we endure without ever becoming used to it.

If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,—less than nothing, because an object of aversion.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestra envidia siempre dura más que la felicidad de quien envidiamos" (Heráclito)

The sun is the width of a human foot.

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.

For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Envy is born in a man from the start.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

It is solely by believing himself a creature but little lower than the cherubim that man has by interminable small degrees become, upon the whole, distinctly superior to the chimpanzee.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.