“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.
“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
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different
“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.
“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
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable