Comparison Quotes

587 quotes by 527 authors

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. — Marlene Dietrich
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. — Emile Durkheim
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. — Tryon Edwards
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age… — James Fenton
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first… — Margot Fonteyn
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or… — Thomas Hobbes
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. — Douglas Horton
I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic,… — Derek Jeter
It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only. — Damian Lewis
I think comparisons are odious. — John Madden
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in… — Maimonides
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done… — Karl Marx
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding… — John McCain
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better… — Felix Mendelssohn
I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my… — Nicki Minaj
I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them. — Taylor Momsen
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. — Marilyn Monroe
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to… — Ashley Montagu
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense. — Viggo Mortensen

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