Quotes about Comparison
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
- Winston Churchill
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
- Ayn Rand
Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.
- Rick Warren
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.
- Beth Moore
There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.
- Beth Moore
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
- Erica Jong
Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.
- Dean Frazer
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
- Milan Kundera
Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.
- Marty Rubin
I have a son your age," he began, "but he's not at all like you. He's fair-haired, strong, and healthy. He likes to eat, drink, go to the pictures, laugh, sing, and go out with the girls. He has none of your anxiety, your unhappiness.
- Elie Wiesel
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson