Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Difference
Difference between a bent copper farthing and a nugget of gold.
—Anonymous
Difference between a Greek temple and a bird-cage, the solemn sea and a street puddle.
—Anonymous
The difference between having a woman at your side and on your side.
—Anonymous
Difference between tweedle dum and tweedle dee.
—Anonymous
The difference of savour ’twixt vinegar and wine.
—Arabian Nights
Difference between … the ideal priest who is everlastingly by some one’s bed and the real priest who is as glad as any one else to get to his own.
—Gilbert K. Chesterton
Difference between the race-horse and the Shetland pony, the bantam and the Shanghai fowl, the greyhound and the poodle dog.
—John W. Draper
As much difference as between an organ and a bagpipe.
—Walter Savage Landor
As much difference between them as between a horse chestnut and a chestnut horse.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)
As much difference as there is between beautie and vertue, bodies and shadowes, colors and life—so great odds is there between love and friendship.
—John Lyly
Difference between a sonata of Beethoven and the Battle Cry of Freedom, between a gravestone-cutter’s cherub and the masterpieces of Raphael.
—William Mathews
The difference between a Sunday newspaper supplement on the monkeys in the Bronx Zoo and the Darwinian Theory.
—George Jean Nathan
The difference is as great as that between an elephant and a mosquito.
—Tamil Proverb
Difference … between jet and ivory.
—William Shakespeare