Quotes
Quotes about Difference
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the lower animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Our differences are politics, our agreements principles.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
