Comparisons Are Odious
Meaning
It means comparing things can cause disliking.
Origin
John Lydgate in his Debate between the horse, goose, and sheep, circa used this in 1440 as:
“Odyous of olde been comparisonis, And of comparisonis engendyrd is haterede.”
John Donne, Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare are other noted personalities who had used this phrase.