Comparable

Famous quotes containing the word comparable:

    To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs—a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.
    Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

    I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
    Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)

    Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
    Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 9:10.