Quotes About Metaphor

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

You can't ride home on a bowl of goat.

I should like to be a horse.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...

It's like smoking compost through a raccoon.

It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

Her face collapsed like a bad poem

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.