Comparing apples to oranges
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They're comparing apples to oranges.
JEFFREY GORDON Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so ma...
REED HASTINGS Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like appl...
JACK HORNER They had nothing to do with each other. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
ADAM SOHN It's apples and oranges (to compare accomplishments),
DONALD DAVIDSON When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO This is an attempt by the city to add apples to oranges.
MAXIMINO MEDINA JR Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another’s is more like comparing an elephant ...
FORREST CURRAN The two of us, we're the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and mache...
BRITTANY CAVALLARO It was apples and oranges. We wanted to give both films a leg up.
JANET MASLIN Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and orange...
DENNIS MOORE I'm very pleased with the body of work we presented, ... really an apples to oranges.
ROBERT WYATT (Proposition 66 and the Reform Three Strikes Act) are like apples and oranges.
JANE ROBISON Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
STEPHEN KING Let the oranges get together and compete for their state championship and let the apples get togethe...
MARK SWIFT If you are comparing against an RG&E fixed price, when you talk to other energy suppliers, you need ...
CLYDE FORBES Comparison shopping is difficult enough. This just seems like a step in the wrong direction. You end...
HUGO BURGE No terrestrial radio station can provide the 125 channels of programming that we offer, including th...
JIM COLLINS I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges...
JOHN GRISHAM When companies are allowed to begin advertising their Part D plans on Oct. 1, seniors are going to b...
DOUG DAY That's apples and oranges. It's fine to recognize what has transpired. I think it's not fair to sugg...
CLARK LINDLEY You have to make sure you are comparing apples to apples. A lot of times, people don't do that -- bu...
CRAIG COOK YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can m...
ALISON OWEN It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as ...
SAM SHEPARD Saturday is full of orange oranges,
Sunday is full of pink apples,
Monday is full of green...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great...
ANNALEE NEWITZ A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
UTADA HIKARU Currently there are no agreed-upon definitions. It won't end up apples to apples.
DEE ANDERSON We got our good apples, and our bad apples.
ENRIQUE LOPEZ Compare yourself to others for inspiration not competition
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ... nothing can be perfectly granted to be the best!no perfect, no best! you
know why?...we are j...
APPLES ROMANO To love is to stop comparing.
BERNARD GRASSET There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling
around when you've got an apple, an...
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria
were brought into Italy all the sor...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge
By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the...
HORACE SMITH AND JAMES SMITH Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough,
A-top on the topmost twig--which the pl...
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye,
But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON Art thou the topmost apple
The gathers could reach,
Reddening on the bough?
Shall I not ...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore,
All ashes to the taste.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.
WILLIAM WALLACE HARNEY How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT What plant we in this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery springs
To load the May-wind's ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT The Blossoms and leaves in plenty
From the apple tree fall each day;
The merry breezes approac...
HEINRICH HEINE And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger
about the spot where once stood a ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE there are always a few bad apples.
ROD BLAGOJEVICH Funny, I didn't think much about apples fore we came to the Black Swamp. when I was growin up we had...
TRACY CHEVALIER Rose carefully and gently pushed the growing pile of rosy-golden apples around each time another cra...
ROGER LEA MACBRIDE On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckl...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
BILL MEYER Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB People think apples have to be pretty. Looking for the perfect plastic apple ruined antique apples. ...
JUDY STONE If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.
SETH ADAM SMITH Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Our result would not be, 'Thou shall eat only red delicious apples.' Eat those apples which most app...
RON WROLSTAD It's like comparing a longhorn to an alligator.
PETER COLLINS and comparing notes with what is said.
LARRY CRAIG It's kind of like apples and oranges, not really an even playing field. ... I know there are some ot...
BILL THOM It's kind of like apples and oranges, not really an even playing field. ... I know there are some ot...
BILL THOM The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Yes, there are less expensive plans, but they don't offer c...
DEBORAH CHERNOFF When life gives you lemons, say Fuck that i order apples. Dont take anything but apples.
CHRIS MACHADO A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing t...
MATT TAIBBI Comparing yourself to the other's makes you a loser.
PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN Most of these early changes probably don't go anywhere. But we are looking for ways to differentiate...
DR. JOEL LEVINE If I were God, it’d be a whole different story, dropping fruit at will. Let them eat apples.
TREBOR HEALEY Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
NATE BERKUS God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
BENNY GREEN Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other People
MEIR EZRA Moon-washed apples of wonder.
JOHN DRINKWATER It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.
AIMEE BENDER Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER When buying oranges, I look for round fullness, with the bottoms not too indented. Perfect coloring ...
BARBARA REYELTS It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS There's small choice in rotten apples.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even clean apples can be sour.
DUTCH PROVERB There's small choice in rotten apples
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about ...
SEAN COVEY Don't compare yourself to others, instead challenge your capacity.
RAKEL GODDU Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
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