Difference

Famous quotes containing the word difference:

    Man is the only animal that laughs or weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    There is no difference between the client and the prostitute. If a man goes to a prostitute, he is also a prostitute.
    Sister Michele, Indian nun. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 35 (January 16, 1994)

    If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)