What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.
Bill Clinton has a brand new book coming out in a few months and the Democrats are worried that the Clinton book might upstage the Kerry campaign. I'm thinking, hell, day-old meat loaf could upstage that campaign.
You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - .
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.
On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Even though wrestling is getting more popular - wrestling being more popular than it was five years ago is like being the nicest guy in prison, it's not a huge compliment, but it's still taking place.
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying “Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.”
Now, Hillary's [Clinton] more than that, she's an actual - she could be a crime boss.
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?
My opponent has all the intellectual rigor of an amoeba.
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.
I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.
Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.
You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
