Quotes About Comparison

If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

Better is the enemy of good.

It was the first time in a long while that I thought about how small a dog I was as Max. It did not seem right that a dog should be the same size as a duck.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

I don't think the moral is good; and if any of you thuckeens go about imitating Anty in her laziness, you'll find it won't thrive with you as it did with her. She was beautiful beyond compare, which none of you are, and she had three powerful fairies to help her besides.

Young Man. Aoife is far away. I am alone. I have come alone in the midst of you To weigh this sword against Cuchullain's sword.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

We are, for all our polish, of little stature, and, as human lives, compared with authentic martyrs, of no account.

Nobody would call Miss Democracy anything but a plain girl, but when one compares her with the hags to whom millions are expected to pay court, she seems a very Helen.

Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already I have found some heart-rending parallels. To think I am only a replica: how humiliating for a human being to find himself merely a duplicate of another.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received.

[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.