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Comparison Quotes - Page 2

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.258, A&C Black

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Each Man's Son”, p.310, New Canadian Library

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

They don’t eat that much.” “In comparison to what? Starving marines?

Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.283, Penguin

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1853). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil ... Revised from the Early Copies, with the References Now First Supplied, and a Few Notes, by Thomas Markby”, p.115

People will always make comparisons.

"Q&A: Don DeLillo / It's not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and death". Interview with John Freeman, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2006.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

"Works", (p. 674) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 125-127), 1922.

With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.

B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.235

I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

"Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

"Bochas", Book III, Chapter VIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 125-27, 1922.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”