There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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.

The sensitivity of men to small matters and their indifference to great ones indicates a strange inversion.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development this choice is a very clear one.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves even if it means chaos and confusion.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

Under the administration of George W. Bush you will recall federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that in the dinner the sweets come last.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.