Behan Brendan 1923-1964
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Bruyere Jean de la 1645-1696
Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle
Between good sense and good taste there is the same difference as between cause and effect.
Churchill Charles 1731-1764
The Conference
The only difference, after all their rout,
Is, that the one is in, the other out.
Compton-Burnett Dame Ivy 1884-1969
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
Fry Christopher
Who, apart
From ourselves, can see any difference between
Our victories and our defeats?
Gandhi Mahatma 1869-1948
Non-Violence in Peace and War
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Hazlitt William 1778-1830
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
James William 1842-1910
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: ‘There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is very important.'
Johnson Lyndon B. 1908-1973
What's the difference between a cactus and a caucus>? A cactus
has the pricks on the outside.
Morley Lord John 1838-1923
It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place.
Pascal Blaise 1623-1662
Pensées
The more intelligence one has the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no
difference between men.
Pepys Samuel 1633-1703
Diary
Strange the difference of men's talk!
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference
between one person and everybody else.
Staël Mme de 1766-1817
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Wellington Duke of 1769-1852
I used to say of him [Napoleon] that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways'
But she is in her grave, and, ho,
The difference to me!
Young Arthur
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.
Hartley L.P. 1895-1972
The Go-Between
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.