--- title: "23 Differences Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "23 Differences quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Differences sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/123/mark-twain-22_democracy_if-voting-made-any-difference-they-would_433891.png" --- > [If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-voting-made-any-difference-they-wouldn-t-let-us-do-it/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/123/mark-twain-22_democracy_if-voting-made-any-difference-they-would_433891.png) > [Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/doesn-t-make-any-difference-who-we-are-or-what-we-are-there-s-always/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf5/mark-twain-22_animal_doesn-t-make-any-difference-who-we-are-o_607107.png) > [It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-not-best-that-we-should-all-think-alike-it-is-a-difference-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85c/mark-twain-22_business_it-is-not-best-that-we-should-all-think_2065734.png) > [The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-difference-between-fiction-and-nonfiction-is-that-fiction-must-be/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/mark-twain-22_believable_the-difference-between-fiction-and-nonfi_1298726.png) > [The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-difference-between-those-that-succeed-and-those-that-fail-is/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/mark-twain-22_differences_the-difference-between-those-that-succee_1455008.png) > [The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-only-difference-between-a-tax-man-and-a-taxidermist-is-that-the-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/256/mark-twain-22_business_the-only-difference-between-a-tax-man-an_2968082.png) > [One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/one-of-the-most-striking-differences-between-a-cat-and-a-lie-is-that/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/mark-twain-22_cat_one-of-the-most-striking-differences-bet_2827272.png) > [The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-difference-between-a-miracle-and-a-fact-is-exactly-the-difference/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be5/mark-twain-22_differences_the-difference-between-a-miracle-and-a-f_2325762.png) > [There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-a-great-difference-between-feeding-parties-to-wild-beasts/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/350/mark-twain-22_barbarians_there-is-a-great-difference-between-feed_2474443.png) > [Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/concerning-the-difference-between-man-and-the-jackass-some-observers/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eab/mark-twain-22_differences_concerning-the-difference-between-man-an_1732392.png) > [The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-only-very-marked-difference-between-the-average-civilized-man-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/mark-twain-22_average_the-only-very-marked-difference-between_3088238.png) > [I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-was-exceedingly-delighted-with-the-waltz-and-also-with-the-polka/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f3/mark-twain-22_cease_i-was-exceedingly-delighted-with-the-wal_1807389.png) > [Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/was-it-my-conspicuousness-that-distressed-me-not-at-all-it-was-merely/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14c/mark-twain-22_beauty_was-it-my-conspicuousness-that-distresse_328939.png) > [If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-pick-up-a-starving-dog-and-make-him-prosperous-he-will-not-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/312/mark-twain-22_animal_if-you-pick-up-a-starving-dog-and-make-h_1304364.png) > [There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-was-a-great-difference-in-boats-of-course-for-a-long-time-i-was/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f9/mark-twain-22_boat_there-was-a-great-difference-in-boats-of_2243378.jpg) > [Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/wit-and-humor-if-any-difference-it-is-in-duration-lightning-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee9/mark-twain-22_comedy_wit-and-humor-if-any-difference-it-is-in_2953955.png) > [But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/but-that-s-always-the-way-it-don-t-make-no-difference-whether-you-do/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/795/mark-twain-22_conscience_but-that-s-always-the-way-it-don-t-make_687694.png) > [Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sufficient-unto-the-day-is-one-baby-as-long-as-you-are-in-your-right/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d79/mark-twain-22_baby_sufficient-unto-the-day-is-one-baby-as-l_2114283.png) > [It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-impossible-that-a-genius-at-least-a-literary-genius-can-ever-be/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ab/mark-twain-22_differences_it-is-impossible-that-a-genius-at-least_2488217.png) > [ “To me \[Edgar Allan Poe's\] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's \[sic\]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/to-me-edgar-allan-poe-s-prose-is-unreadable-like-jane-austin-s-sic-no/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/370/mark-twain-22_allan-poe_to-me-edgar-allan-poe-s-prose-is-unreada_175729.png) > [Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/difference-between-savage-and-civilized-man-one-is-painted-the-other/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b6/mark-twain-22_civilization_difference-between-savage-and-civilized_2420432.png) > [That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/that-s-the-difference-between-governments-and-individuals-governments/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/145/mark-twain-22_care_that-s-the-difference-between-government_2471657.png) > [The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-only-difference-between-reality-and-fiction-is-that-fiction-needs/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98f/mark-twain-22_credible_the-only-difference-between-reality-and_1494259.png) ## Other authors on Differences - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 40 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-branson-78442.jpg) Richard Branson 27 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/richard-branson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dalai-lama-26000.jpg) Dalai Lama 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/dalai-lama/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 20 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-audre-lorde-15604.jpg) Audre Lorde 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/audre-lorde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-james-95592.jpg) William James 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/william-james/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-c-maxwell-51081.jpg) John C. Maxwell 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/john-c-maxwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jim-rohn-49870.jpg) Jim Rohn 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/jim-rohn/) - [Aristotle 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-ronald-reagan-81107.jpg) Ronald Reagan 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/ronald-reagan/) ## More by Mark Twain > [Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "23 Differences Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": 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