Difference

Famous quotes containing the word difference:

“I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)