Quotes About Difference

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.