Quotes About Comparison

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.

People aren't too different from lab rats. We seek out rewarding experiences and steer clear of punishing ones. If interaction with you is a disagreeable event, people will avoid it. (from chapter 12) tl;dr people aren't too different from lab rats

You must be desperate if you're asking Mom for adivce. Did she sit you down on the couch ?" "I'm not a patient of hers, asswipe. I'm her favorite son." Derrick ignored Gage's huff. The little snot. (...) "Favorite, my ass. She pities you. Gage is nothing more than a baby-maker. I'm the favorite." Dylan preened, pulling at the cuffs on his designer shirt. "Culture, charm, good looks and a real occupation. What's not to love

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Nothing more resembles a tomcat on a windowsill than a female cat.

that's my way, always jealous and never thin

A person caught in a neurotic state, in some respects may well be compared to a man bewitched. Forced to a very low level of behavior, people suffering from a neurosis is capable of acting jarring and so destructive to themselves and to others, with basic or instinctive motivations.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.