Comparisons - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66352<![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9141<![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel! She, like thee, was forced to bear ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9142<![CDATA[Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9143<![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9144<![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9145<![CDATA[To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9146<![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9147<![CDATA[Some say, that Seignior Bononchini Compar'd to Handel's a mere Ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9148<![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9149<![CDATA[At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9150<![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9151<![CDATA[Like to like. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152<![CDATA[Comparisons are odious. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9153<![CDATA[Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9154<![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9155<![CDATA[And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9156<![CDATA[Comparisons do ofttime great grievance. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9157<![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9158<![CDATA[Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9159<![CDATA[Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9160<![CDATA[The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso Suggon l'istesso ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9161<![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162<![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9138<![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9139<![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9140