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Quotes About Comparison

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
~ James Huneker
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
~ Thomas Hobbes
There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.
~ Edouard Manet
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature
~ Adolf Hitler
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
~ Philip Yancey
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
~ Alexander Pope
Envy is human nature.
~ Monica Bellucci
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.
~ Larry Sabato
[A personÂ's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
~ David Hume
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
~ Emily Dickinson
A man shall never be enriched by envy.
~ Thomas Draxe
Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!
~ Tite Kubo
Look Below and You'll feel Rich, Look Above and You'll feel Poor
~ Vineet Raj Kapoor
Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss.
~ Eraldo Banovac
A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Jealousy is not the remedy.It is the illness.
~ Gabbo De La Parra
How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.
~ Sam Lipsyte, The Subject Steve
Find me the perfect human being and I'll show you Jesus Christ.
~ J.R. Rim
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Don't be so proud for being educated then other, you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets
~ Yaganesh Derasari
Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Elantris