Comparison Quotes

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. (Stendhal)
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. View quote
Neil Gaiman
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 with our own formerly. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jealousy is the fear of comparison. View quote
Max Frisch
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. View quote
Émile Durkheim
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Comparison is the thief of joy. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. View quote
Francis Bacon
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. (Abraham Lincoln)
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today. View quote
Nick Mason
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph. View quote
William Boyd
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky
Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young. View quote
David Guterson
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement. View quote
Francis Crick
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. View quote
Michael Shermer
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley. View quote
Howard Carter
A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples, throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. View quote
Edmund Burke
Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is? (Terry Jones)
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. View quote
Wallace Stevens
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies-for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould