Quotes About Metaphor

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby?

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;A vapor sometime like a bear or lion,A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock,A forked mountain, or blue promontoryWith trees upon 't.

Thus sometimes hath the brightest Day a Cloud; And after Summer, evermore succeeds Barren Winter, with his wrathful nipping Cold...

He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.

This night methinks is but the daylight sick.

The weakest kind of fruitDrops earliest to the ground.

And of the Cannibals that each other eat,The Anthropophagi, and men whose headsDo grow beneath their shoulders.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

Love is like a lion's tooth

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

When I stand here in front of the cabinet, my heart feels like a silkworm slumbering in its cocoon.

In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees.

All public life sustains itself through metaphor.