Famous quotes containing the word compete:
“No doubt you were extremely beautiful as a young girl, but your youth could never compete with your age now.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
“The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–67)
“As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)