Quotes About Comparison

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide.

Compared with the Egyptians, the Greeks are childish mathematicians." - Plato

Rocky doesn't act nothing like me. Apollo Creed, the way he dances, the way he jabs, the way he talks.... That's me.

Consider, Mighty Creator of all things, the differences between Sindbad's life and mine. Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life— what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Comparing the sun with the moon is similar to those who try to compare God with the devil.

Demons, including the devil, should be compared to angels. God has no comparison. All demons were once considered angels.

Everyone thinks and imagines that life is easier on the other side. Their minds swing like a pendulum.

Jealousy is the fuel of relationships and marriage. At the same time, envy kills affection in love.

Since you cannot mix wolves with sheep, why would anyone dare to compare a lion with the lamb?

The African culture can't be the same as the European, or the European to be similar to the American culture.

The dollar bill is above many other currencies. In other words, paper is more valuable than silver and gold.

These motivators are no better or worse than pastors, or any religious leaders out there.

We crowd ourselves at work, then claim that there are too many competitions in the world.

We end up with the concept of, humans are to God as the robots are to Man.

You will always meet someone who has more courage than you. Therefore, humble yourself.

While she eventually adjusts to the faded motivational posters featuring long-dead baby animals and the fifties-era reading books whose soporific effects have intensified with each decade of use she can't get it out of of her head that while she is speeding around in circles waiting to be told when to stop other kids are flying to the moon.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).

A cynic once defined a metaphor as 'a simile with the words of comparison left out'.

The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

if it is true that Jesus ultimately fits no known pattern within the first century,51 it is more or less bound to be true that he fits none within the twentieth.

It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well take encouragement from watching a great athlete run a four-minute mile. Sure, it's a fine sight, but at my age and with my weight I would be lucky to do a mile in 10 minutes, let alone four. I can watch a ballet dancer on stage with great delight, not because I can copy him, but precisely because I know I can't.

But just because I would rather eat part of a dead cow than part of a dead rat, that doesn't mean that I don't care whether my steak is properly cooked;

Put like that, of course, it seems absurd; and yet the absurdity lies in the attempt to picture God as just like us only a bit bigger and more all-seeing.