Comparative Value Quotes

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

If this thing is what they say it is, it's better than the gold rush.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Those that go into a foreign plantation, their industry there is worth more than if they stayed at home, the product of their labor being in commodities of a superior nature to those of this country. For instance, what is an improved acre in Jamaica or Barbados worth to an improved acre in England? We know it is three times the value

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

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

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.