Common Comparison Sayings

#1. Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. - Author: Kenneth Clark

#2. She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face. - Author: W. Somerset Maugham

#3. As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#4. That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional. - Author: Laurie Colwin

#5. Brought before HCUA, Miller was chastised for the suggestion that Congressional investigations might have something in common with witch trials; he replied, "The comparison is inevitable, sir." Thomas was shortly afterwards thrown in jail for fraud. - Author: Carl Sagan

#6. I'm saying no for now." Ty - Author: Abigail Roux

#7. There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something. - Author: Henry Jackman

#8. But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish. - Author: Fanny Kemble

#9. There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside. - Author: Ian Hacking

#10. But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday - those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies! - Author: Roger Zelazny

#11. It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it. - Author: Jack Dorsey