Metaphor Quotes

"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." "I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it" "A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light" "The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow" "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found" "Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall" "Envy is the ulcer of the soul" "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it" "Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth." "Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind" "To contemplate is to look at shadows" "I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim" "We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other." "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."