Between ourselves.

Courtesy between nations.

Between hawk and buzzard. [ Proverb ]

Let there be truth between us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Between the hammer and the anvil.

The rising moon has hid the stars;
Her level rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

In the dusk (between dog and wolf). [ French ]

Next, with a long interval between. [ Virgil ]

Most virtue lies between two vices. [ Horace ]

The wind breath'd soft a lover's sigh,
And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die
With breathless pause between,
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene! [ Scott ]

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower;
A watery ray an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between. [ Scott ]

Like angel visits, few and far between. [ Campbell ]

There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen.
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. [ Longfellow ]

There's a skirmish of wit between them. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act I. Sc.1 ]

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. [ Jul. Caes ]

A hedge between, keeps friendship green. [ Proverb ]

Like a lovely tree
She grew to womanhood, and between whiles
Rejected several suitors, just to learn
How to accept a better in his turn. [ Byron ]

What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds. [ Madame Deluzy ]

Keep a mid course between the two extremes. [ Ovid ]

Let nothing come between you and the light. [ Thoreau ]

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Between saying and doing there's a long road. [ Proverb ]

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

This narrow isthmus between two boundless seas,
The past, the future - two eternities. [ Moore ]

Woman is a creature between man and the angels. [ Balzac ]

Little difference between a feast and a bellyful. [ Proverb ]

There is some difference between Peter and Peter. [ Proverb ]

Many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Proverb ]

Like to the time of the year between the extremes
Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry. [ William Shakespeare ]

Between two stools, the breech comes to the ground. [ Proverb ]

All extremes are error.
The reverse of error is not truth, but error still.
Truth lies between these extremes. [ Cecil ]

All between the cradle and the coffin is uncertain. [ Proverb ]

The touchstone distinguishes between gold and brass. [ Proverb ]

Want makes strife between the good-man and his wife. [ Proverb ]

There is a great affinity between designing and art. [ Addison ]

Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. [ Plato ]

The balance distinguisheth not between gold and lead. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals. [ Goldsmith ]

Carry your knife even between the paring and the apple. [ Proverb ]

Oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Greene ]

There is difference between living long and suffering long. [ Proverb ]

God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is a deal of difference between love and gratefulness. [ Proverb ]

Time, - that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. [ Colton ]

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. [ Emerson ]

Friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

In sleep what difference is there between Solomon and a fool? [ Proverb ]

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber. [ Johnson ]

Between promising and performing, a man may marry his daughter. [ Proverb ]

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. [ Confucius ]

There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil. [ Proverb ]

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. [ Whipple ]

Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road.
The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode
Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height.
Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light. [ Lucy Larcom ]

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. [ Franklin ]

Between a woman's Yes and No you may insert the point of a needle. [ German Proverb ]

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. [ A. Karr ]

There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. [ Richter ]

Between the mouth and the kiss, there is always time for repentance. [ A. Ricard ]

A picture is an intermediate something between a thought and a thing. [ Coleridge ]

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. [ Bacon ]

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness. [ Byron ]

All things should be common between friends. Our friend is another self. [ Pythagoras ]

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.

Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth. [ Cervantes ]

The perfect love of God knoweth no difference between the poor and the rich. [ Pacuvius ]

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness. [ Pascal ]

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]

That which will not be spun, let it not come between the spindle and the distaff. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Between the business of life and the day of death a space ought to be interposed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sleep hath its own world, a boundary between the things misnamed death and existence. [ Byron ]

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. [ Coleridge ]

Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is a greater distance between love and indifference than between hatred and love. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

Wicked women bother one, good women bore one. That is the only difference between them. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. [ H. W. Shaw ]

We should distinguish between laughter inspired by joy, and that which arises from mockery. [ Goldsmith ]

Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing but life, which of all things is the frailest. [ Pascal ]

There is a settled friendship, nay, a near relation and similitude, between God and good men. [ Seneca ]

Bad company, muttered the thief, as he stepped to the gallows between the hangman and a monk. [ Dutch Proverb ]

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. [ Montaigne ]

There is a greater distance between some men and others, than between some men and the beasts. [ Montaigne ]

From a confidence to an indiscretion, there is only the distance between the ear and the tongue. [ Pichot ]

Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. [ La Bruyère ]

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that caprice lasts a little longer. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife. [ Scotch Proverb ]

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great. [ Landor ]

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot. [ Emmons ]

I scarcely exceed the middle age of man; yet between infancy and maturity I have seen ten revolutions! [ Lamartine ]

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. [ Latimer ]

The difference between Socrates and Jesus Christ? The great Conscious; the immeasurably great Unconscious. [ Carlyle ]

That man has advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. [ Chamfort ]

No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. [ Froude ]

The difference between love and possession is that one is an infinite desire, the other a satisfied desire. [ Saint-Prosper ]

Midnight, - strange mystic hour, - when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where superiority is reduced by some equivalent advantage. [ Johnson ]

There is no friendship between those associated in power; he who rules will always be impatient of an associate. [ Lucan ]

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? [ Lucretius ]

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. [ W. Godwin ]

There is one penny saved in four, between buying in thy necessity, and when the markets and seasons are fittest for it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. [ Adolph Monod ]

Sympathy is a relationship of the heart and mind: between two persons of different sex the senses enter the relationship. [ A. Dupuy ]

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. [ Paxton Hood ]

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment. [ Landor ]

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. [ Mme. de Stael ]

There is a wide difference between the knowledge of men and the knowledge of man. To know man, it suffices to study one's self. [ Duclos ]

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain: for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. [ Bancroft ]

That a liaison between a man and a woman may be truly interesting, there must be between them enjoyment, remembrance, or desire. [ Chamfort ]

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. [ Hare ]

It has always struck me that there is a far greater distinction between man and man than between many men and most other animals. [ Basil Hall ]

The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a riddle. [ Richter ]

A similitude of nature and manners in such a degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. [ F. Atterbury ]

In strictness of language there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action and action directed by it. [ Paley ]

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern, - the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all men. [ Holland ]

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. [ Addison ]

The only true and firm friendship is that between man and woman, because it is the only affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry. [ A. Comte ]

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses. [ Theodore Parker ]

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two. [ La Bruyere ]

Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]

What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness. [ Blair ]

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting-place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. [ Tupper ]

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. [ Bias ]

There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the miracle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffinman's bell. [ Carlyle ]

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. [ Mark Twain ]

Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society puts in their way. [ Balzac ]

The more enlarged is our own mind, the greater number we discover of men of originality. Your commonplace people see no difference between one man and another. [ Pascal ]

Mathematics is the science which investigates the consequences which are logically deducible from any given or admitted relations between magnitudes or numbers. [ T. Galloway ]

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage. [ Shenstone ]

There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and the minute-hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much. [ Sydney Smith ]

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will. [ Carlyle ]

The difference between you and me, said a philosopher, is that you say to masked hypocrites, I know you, while I leave them with the idea that they have deceived me. [ Chamfort ]

When a man puts on a character he is a stranger to, there is as much difference between what he appears and what he is in reality as there is between a visor and a face. [ Bruyere ]

Extremes are dangerous: a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. [ Swinnock ]

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge, love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek. [ J. C. Hare ]

There is this 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. [ Bacon ]

The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. [ Schlegel ]

If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. [ Addison ]

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence. [ George Eliot ]

It's a long stretch between that first birthday speech and this one. That was my cradle-song; and this is my swan-song, I suppose. I am used to swan-songs; I have sung them several times. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. [ Daniel Webster ]

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. [ Marryat ]

It is better to decide a difference between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of our enemies will probably become our friend. [ Bias ]

Friendship is impossible between men of high social standing and men in the lower walks of life; very difficult between a young man and a young woman; between two beautiful women, it is but a poetic fiction.

A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each other, but their very face and tone of voice contract a certain analogy. [ Lavater ]

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]

Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives. To the Christian they are but the place at which he gathers breath for a nobler sentence. To Christ, the grave was but the hyphen between man and God, for He was God-man. [ Duffield ]

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. [ Macaulay ]

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big thing. This is truth, to me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life; although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. [ Beethoven ]

Ordinary or Common? A distinction may be thus drawn between these terms; what is common is done by many persons; what is ordinary is repeated many times. Ordinary has to do with the repetition of the act; common, with the persons who perform it. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between, these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. [ La Bruyere ]

Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

The difference between a parable and an apologue is that the former, being drawn from human life, requires probability in the narration, whereas the apologue, being taken from inanimate things or the inferior animals, is not confined strictly to probability. The fables of Aesop are apologues. [ Fleming ]

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. [ Southey ]

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. [ Swift ]

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing. [ Hillard ]

It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]

Necessary or Essential? Necessary signifies not to be departed from, and is a general and an indefinite term. The essential contains that essence or property which cannot be omitted. It is necessary for men to die. Exercise is essential to the preservation of health. There is an essential difference between gold and silver. Here we could not properly use necessary for essential. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]

There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]

If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

There is the same difference between diligence and neglect, that there is between a garden curiously kept and the sluggard's field when it was all overgrown with nettles and thorns; the one is clothed with beauty and the gracious amiableness of content and cheering loveliness; while the other hath nothing but either little smarting pungencies or else such transpiercings as rankle the flesh within. [ Feltham ]

Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]