Famous quotes containing the word compared:
“War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men’s deeds and not our thoughts. What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“there’s nothing compared with the ould Orange flute.”
—Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 8)