Comparison

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

—Dave Barry

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

—Dylan Thomas

He smiled his best smile, the one that ruined me for every other smile in the world.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison.

—Debbie Macomber in The Trouble with Angels

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

—Bjork