Metaphor Quotes

"Better to slide thither on a plank than cling to the rocks of a hostile shore" "Man is an amphibious creature – a being who cannot live in the water and cannot live out of it " "Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world" "Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor." "People will insist on treating the mons veneris as though it were Mount Everest." "The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat." "The darkness declares the glory of light" "As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history." "We are like eggs at present. And you cannot " "It is nought good a sleping hound to wake" "Inside of you is a starry night, a river of candles"