Quotes about Comparison

What the heathen had in their wood, we have in our opinions.

Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury.

For example, imagine that two people each have a hundred dollars. One person carries it in a paper bag. The other keeps it in an iron chest. Both have the same treasure no matter where they put it. Similarly, we all have the same Christ. It doesn't matter if one person has a stronger or weaker faith than another. Both of them still believe in the same Christ and have everything through him.

The man had the intelligence of the average fence post, the personality of a wounded warthog, and the stubbornness of a flea-bitten mule. Grace silently apologized to all the animals she'd just insulted.

Women say all men are the same, but they have no problem telling you how different you are from Mel Gibson.

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.

Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

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.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.

An ounce of love is greater than a ton of passion.

Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.