56 Quotations with Metaphor.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 2. Henry Fielding: LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; someti ...
- 3. Paul Valery: The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torr ...
- 4. Gustave Flaubert: Exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of th ...
- 5. John R. Searle: Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to us ...
- 6. G. K. Chesterton: All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- 7. Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of ...
- 8. Jose Antonio Burciaga: To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and act ...
- 9. Milan Kundera: Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are no ...
- 10. Jose Raul Bernardo: Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.
- 11. Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you oug ...
- 12. Georg C. Lichtenberg: A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
- 13. Diane Ackerman: A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only ...
- 14. Gilbert K. Chesterton: All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- 15. Robert Frost: An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
- 16. William Golding: Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about hi ...
- 17. Octavio Paz: If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excel ...
- 18. Jonathan Raban: Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel ...
- 19. Paul De Man: Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
- 20. Daniel J. Boorstin: Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that ...
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