Quotes About Comparison

I hate the term black sheep, but I just felt like I wasn't keeping up. It was a subtle pressure I put on myself.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant..

Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates

Consider a simple comparison: The American government spends more on Americans' health care (per capita) than the French government spends on their entire health care system (again in per capita terms). It is a fair criticism that some individuals are left out of this coverage, or perhaps too much is sent to doctors and hospitals, but using some very plausible metrics, the American government is more involved in health care than is the French government.

So to line up this simple comparison, in revenue terms the personal income tax sector is 4.7 times greater than the corporate sector. The relative "cheating factor" is about 6 to 1, with more of the cheating done on the personal income tax. In terms of those simple proportions, individuals would appear to cheat more on their taxes than businesses do.

Compare today to the 1950s. At that time, a typical apartment in New York City rented for about $60 a month, or, adjusting for inflation, about $530 a month. Today you can't find a broom closet in the East Village for that amount. Even

The grass may be greener on the other side but the the water bill is higher.

I suppose you're young,' she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

Social contexts provide ubiquitous cases of the same point: If one bottle of beer costs £1, six individual bottles may cost £6, whereas a six-pack costs £5.

Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

The main problem with teenagers is that they're just like their parents were at their age.

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times

How are men and parking spots alike? The good ones are always taken. Free ones are mostly handicapped or extremely small.

One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.

I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

The grass is always greener where you water it.