Nothing is good or bad but by comparison. [ Proverb ]
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable. [ Proverb ]
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. [ Proverb ]
Man, woman, and devil, are the three degrees of comparison. [ Proverb ]
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. [ Emerson ]
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt! [ Blair ]
Fame only reflects the estimate in which a man is held in comparison with others. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler. [ Steele ]
To be deprived of the person we love is a happiness in comparison to living with one we hate. [ La Bruyere ]
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. [ Wycherley ]
The only sovereign remedy is to give Christ the pre-eminence in our hearts; for then we shall undervalue all temporal things in comparison of Him. [ Fisher's Catechism ]
Her hand, in whose comparison all whites are ink writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure the cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense hard as the palm of ploughman! [ William Shakespeare ]
The joys of heaven are without example, above experience, and beyond imagination - for which the whole creation wants a comparison; we, an apprehension; and even the Word of God, a revelation. [ Bishop Norris ]
Friendship has steps which lead up on the throne of God, through all spirits, even to the Infinite; only love is satiable, and like truth admits no three degrees of comparison; and a single being fills the heart. [ Richter ]
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]
In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talisman, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kindred tribes are driven from the land, never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so intolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. [ J. Bentham ]