Quotes About Comparison

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

If you would but exchange places with the other fellow how much more you could appreciate your own position.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

Life is hard. Next to what?

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

I like any dog that makes me look good when it stands next to me.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.