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Quotes About Difference

The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He's sophisticated, he brings her flowers and candy, he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence.
~ Tim Conway
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.
~ Arthur Young
Definition of Father's Day: Same as Mother's Day but you don't spend as much.
~ Anonymous
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
~ Andre Previn
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
~ Will Rogers
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
~ Norman Cousins
The blind man is laughing at the bald head.
~ Persian Proverb
In almost any society, I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as, and no better than that of the conformists.
~ Margaret Mead
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~ General George S. Patton
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment- and surprise.
~ Christine Downing
The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
~ Dorothy Dix
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.
~ Edwin Way Teale
The ability to sin differs among people. For example, a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.
~ Anonymous
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.
~ Madame de Stael
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Attitude is the "little" thing that makes the big difference.
~ Zig Ziglar, 1970s
Take care, don't fight, and remember, if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Overcoming and getting over are two very different things.
~ J.D. Robb
Let me point out that a duck's idea of being saved may be different from your idea of being saved. It may include being left in peace by human beings.
~ J.M. Coetzee
I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.
~ J.P. Moreland