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Metaphor Quotes

"Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
Benjamin Franklin
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Benjamin Franklin
"Everything is a symbol of something else."
Fernando Pessoa
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke"
Lynda Barry
"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds"
Herbert Simon
"Better to slide thither on a plank than cling to the rocks of a hostile shore"
Herman Melville
"Man is an amphibious creature – a being who cannot live in the water and cannot live out of it "
Aldous Huxley
"Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world"
Jimmy Buffett
"Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor."
Anne Sexton
"People will insist on treating the mons veneris as though it were Mount Everest."
Aldous Huxley
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."
Confucius
"The darkness declares the glory of light"
T. S. Eliot
"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."
Walter Benjamin
"We are like eggs at present. And you cannot "
C. S. Lewis
"It is nought good a sleping hound to wake"
Geoffrey Chaucer
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