COMPARISONS

Related Subjects: Analogy, Likeness, Qualities

1. The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

2. If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison.—LOCKE
   

3. Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.—JOHN LYDGATE, Bochas
   

4. Comparisons are odious.—Proverb
   

5. Man, woman, and devil, are the three degrees of comparison.—Proverb
   

6. If you would compare two men, you must know them both.—Proverb
   

7. Comparison, more than reality makes men happy or wretched.—Proverb
   

8. Comparing what thou art,
   With what thou mightst have been.—SCOTT, The Field of Waterloo
   

9. Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
   The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

10. My father's brother, but no more like my father
    Than I to Hercules.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

11. Comparisons are odorous.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

12. I have been studying how I may compare
    This prison where I live unto the world:
    And for because the world is populous
    And here is not a creature but myself,
    I cannot do it.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
    

13. I will make thee think thy swan a crow.—SHAKESPEARE,Romeo and Juliet