Quotes About Comparison

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

The behavior of the pigeon is beyond reproach, but the mountain cuckoo?

Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home, and finding they don't fit.

Here lie a man and a woman. The man is more beautiful than the woman. And for this reason there have been times when the woman has feared that she loves the man more than he loves her. He has always denied this.

Once they were the same age. Now Leah is aging in dog years. Her thirty-five is seven times his, and seven times more important, so important he has to keep reminding her of the numbers, in case she forgets.

Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't be heard. How do you get to be so full? And so full of only meaningful things?

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others

He'd turned to me, red-faced, and asked: 'If we were flying to Europe and you wanted to know what France was like, would it help if I described Germany?

At least then, we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.

It is easy to say they make being young look like hard work, but wasn't it always hard work, even if the medium of its difficultly was different? At least they are making a project of their lives, a measurable project that can be liked or commented upon.

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others.

England is not warmer than New England in July or August, that's true. Probably not in June either. But it is warmer in October, November, December, January, February, March, April and May - that is, in every month when warmth matters.

So Ryan was red as a beetroot. And Clara was black as yer boot

I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.

We must dress to make other women jealous and to attract men.

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Unless you see de fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide.

When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They'd look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them.

Now, dat's how everything wuz, Pheoby, jus' lak Ah told yuh. So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.

I would say the Geordie accent and the scouse accent are similar in terms of I don't understand anything!