| Author |
Quotes |
| Aristotle | How God ever brings like to like. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken? |
| Edmund Burke | It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. |
| George Herbert | Comparisons are odious. |
| James Russell Lowell | And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | There are fagots and fagots. |
| John Byrom | Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee! |
| John Byrom | Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange! that such high Disputes shou'd be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. |
| John Lydgate | Comparisons do ofttime great grievance. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale. |
| Philip James Bailey | 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. |
| Philip James Bailey | Defining night by darkness, death by dust. |
| Philip James Bailey | Our similarities are different. |
| Robert Burns | To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him. |
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