Famous quotes containing the word compared:
“As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)