Quotes about Comparison

Folks say I'm good, he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones—like Mistress Blythe here—wouldn't show up so well.

Niyeyse, bir ÅŸeyi ikinci kez düÅŸündüÄŸünüzde asla ilki kadar iyi olmuyor. Hiç bunu fark?na varm?? m?yd?n?z?

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee—or Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin—are points which to this day remain unsettled.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

(After listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can't hang with eagles.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.