Quotes About Comparison

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

if someone gets jealous from you, that the sign of your progress

Don't Compare Yourself to others, this way You are insulting yourself.

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.

Trees are selfless, so all species thrive. If they were like humans, the world wouldn't survive.

A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.