Comparison Quotes - Page 2

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