Comparisons
Forbidden City: 7,800,000 square feet (724,644 m2)
Topkapi Palace: 7,500,000 square feet (696,773 m2)
Palace of the Parliament: 3,700,000 square feet (343,741 m2)
Istana Nurul Iman: 2,152,782 square feet (200,000 m2)
Louvre Palace: 1,453,175 square feet (135,004 m2) (Currently part of 2,260,495 square feet (210,007 m2) Musee du Louvre)
Royal Palace of Madrid: 1,453,122 square feet (134,999 m2)
Buckingham Palace: 828,818 square feet (77,000 m2)
The Palace of Versailles: 721,206 square feet (67,002 m2)
Royal Palace of Stockholm: 658,858 square feet (61,210 m2)
Windsor Castle: 484,374 square feet (45,000 m2)
Winter Palace: 250,000 square feet (23,226 m2) (Currently part of 1,978,622 square feet (183,820 m2) Hermitage Museum)
Rashtrapati Bhavan, India: 200,000 square feet (18,581 m2)
Palais des Papes: 161,500 square feet (15,004 m2)
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“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“I don’t like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game, but it isn’t exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”
—Bowie Kuhn (b. 1926)
“The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling “less than” another, comparisons only fan the fires.”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)