Metaphor Quotes

"I’m like Shaq, I don’t see nobody" "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it" "The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick." "Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance — nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city — as one loses oneself in a forest — that calls for quite a different schooling." "Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby." "This enemy who attacks us at an unknown hour and steals our death when we are not yet detached from life — this enemy is a mouse." "If love were oil, I'd be about a quart low" "I'm high, like a star, in the sky" "What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul" "The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations." "A fool grows without rain." "Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines." "The human body is like a condominium: The thing that keeps you from really enjoying it is the maintenance" "The soul of a true Christian appears like a little white flower" "A man who goes to bed in darkness is not an example of faith." "My life has been an endless rehearsal for a show with no opening night." "Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days, " "The brighter the world becomes, the deeper takes the shadow within." "When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."