Famous quotes containing the word compete:
“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)
“No doubt you were extremely beautiful as a young girl, but your youth could never compete with your age now.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)