Difference

Famous quotes containing the word difference:

“Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)

“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)