Quotes about Comparison

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Fourth of July picnic. And by the way, that picnic, like everything else in this land, is a model of efficiency: you drive at top speed, set up in a previously reserved space, spread out the baskets, bolt your food, kick the ball, and rush home to avoid the traffic. In Chile, a similar project would take three days.

it is the most Catholic country in the world—more Catholic than Ireland, and certainly much more so than the Vatican.

The national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.

If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

Another weakness found in altogether too many people is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.

Envy has empty hands and wants them full. Jealousy has full hands and never wants them empty. Envy languishes in self-pity because it doesn't have what others have. Jealousy rants in paranoia because it fears losing what it feels unworthy to own.

A truth presented by Satan himself is just as true as a truth stated by God.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.