Quotes About Comparison

mean proportional, i.e., if b and c are two given positive numbers, then x is the mean proportional of b and c if it satisfies the statement "b is to x as x is to c." Or, in algebra which

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.

On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn't be dismissed just because there's no Hitler in sight.

Blinky couldn't bench press a breadstick

Women, I have long believed, are the more evolved of the species and have attained some higher level of being. Men act as if we just crawled from the swamp, our webbed feet dripping brackish water as we waddle ashore, seeking to mate with a female or, lacking that, a warm patch of mud.

Given that dogs and wolves are virtually indistinguishable genetically, the enormous variation in body size and shape in the dog is truly remarkable.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

I wasn't crazy—I didn't see us in the same league as Zeppelin.

It is not Christianity as a whole, but Calvinist Protestantism whose attitude towards nature contradicts almost completely the Buddhist attitude.

She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.

She's so beautiful," I tell Emily. "She might have had a shot." "The world is full of beautiful girls.

If the women in Paris were peacocks, I was a garden-variety hen.

A country where everybody always running from the next body feeling they's better. But mark my words, one of these days they gon all run out of where-to-run. ~ Ulene

There's no way I could make the case that Animal House is a better picture than Heaven Can Wait , yet on some sort of emotional-aesthetic level I prefer it.

Alexander was silent. "Now you're really tiny," he said at last. "I'm not tiny," she returned. "You're just outsized." Blushing, she lowered her gaze.

Como suele pasar, Verónica despreciaba a la gente que se le parecía.

I was younger, smarter, better educated than she, and I began to realize that she was afraid of me and the truths I told. By the

God is as real as a station wagon.

Sandi couldn't bear to read about other people falling in love and having babies while her own arms and worms were so painfully empty.

People argue between Pele or Maradona. Di Stéfano is the best, much more complete.

When Emma sat down on a rock to take off her shoes and stockings, he said to her, "You've Yankee feet. Long and skinny." "And you've Irish feet," she said, right back at him. "Big and always in your mouth

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Oh, other people's happiness, especially when it is ill-won, is hard to bear when you are unhappy yourself,' he said. 'I should know.