Quotes About Comparison

A bristling fox is better than a deranged, half-shod idiot.

For all that, she lacked your fire.

Están las cosas tan mal como parece? ¿O me he vuelto viejo, como mi padre, y a todo le encuentro un sabor amargo comparado con cuando era niño?

Tus labios son como copos de nieve en mis labios.

This meant in terms of social standing the baronet was so high above me that if he were a star, I would not be able to see him with the naked eye.

Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as…

You'd be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.

as different as water and alcohol. In equal glasses they look the same. Both liquid. Both clear. Both wet, after a fashion. But one will burn, the other will not. This has nothing to do with temperament or timing. These two things behave differently because they are profoundly, fundamentally not the same.

Finding the right analogy is as hard as…" I put on a thoughtful expression. "As hard as…" I made an inarticulate grasping gesture.

Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as…" I

Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.

Als Schubert so alt war wie ich, da war er schon drei Jahre tot.

Several rows of spectators were blocking our view of the upcoming parade, almost all of them more vertically endowed than we were. In short, vertical envy had reared its ugly head and was making faces at us.

Isn't that the kettle calling the pot collect?" English

Maybe I was waxing nostalgic, but that was certainly better than waxing my legs. I don't know how women do that—the legs, not the nostalgic part.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

A pulverized apple and a pulverized orange are finally the same thing, aren't they? You

a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.

I fuck like an overturned guppy.

Jaguar model names sound like rockets: XJ–S, XJ8, E–Type. Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor.

And it isn't a mistake in taste, like believing that the Matrix sequels were as good as the original.

The myth of pure evil has many sources. One is what Steven Pinker calls "the moralization gap"—the tendency to diminish the severity of our own acts relative to the acts of others.