Comparison Quotes

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

In comparison, there's no comparison.

No man is happy but by comparison.

For like to like, the proverb saith.

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

Victory does not feel so good as losing feels bad. When you have a son, you are happy. But it's no comparison to the sadness you feel losing a son.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it's my hobby as well as my job.

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

Anytime anybody goes, "Wow you've been busy." I'm like, "No, not since college. This is a cakewalk in comparison."

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.

No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.

I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can’t afford me.

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.