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Quotes About Comparison

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
~ Janis Joplin
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo
~ Unknown
It is not empathy I seek. I found what I was looking for... envy me!
~ Unknown
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
~ David Chambless
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better
~ Unknown
It is out first love that we will use to gauge all others.
~ Unknown
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
~ Unknown
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
~ Anonymous
What can the love in my soul be compared to another wonderful soul which is so far and yet so close of my self?
~ Sorin Cerin
The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.
~ Hitopadesa
Love and cowardice are really the same thing.
~ William Cullen Bryant
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
~ Emily Bronte
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied
~ Mark Twain
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common
~ Rufus Wainwright
Every love's the love before in a duller dress
~ Dorothy Parker
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools
~ Katherine Mansfield
I look at my myself; and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.
~ Anonymous
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
~ Josh Billings
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
~ Henry Louis Mencken