Comparison quotes

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Music is like film to me.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

There is no gambling like politics.