“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives”
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“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives”
“I may be no better than other people, but at least I am different”
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”
“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin”
“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”
“To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live”
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different”
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language”
“The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way”
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ”
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else”
“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”
“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world”
“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter”
“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does”
“Without contraries is no progression.”
“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect”
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable”