Analogy Quotes

Have you ever tried to explain an idea so complex that ordinary words just aren't enough? That's where analogy comes in. It's not just a comparison; it's a mental bridge we build between what's familiar and what's obscure, transforming an abstract concept into a vivid image the mind can interact with.

It's like having a map but wanting to describe the terrain of a place no one has ever seen. You simply say: "Imagine it's like these mountains, but made of ideas." This is how we simplify the complex and illuminate the unknown.

Learn how the wise employed this rhetorical art to elucidate profound meanings through these insightful quotes.

Quote by Diogenes: As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat...
Quote by Groucho Marx: If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb...
Quote by Winston Churchill: The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether...
Quote by Winston Churchill: Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty....
Quote by Muhammad Ali: They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily,...
Quote by Mark Twain: Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Traini...
Quote by Mark Twain: The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by...
Quote by Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education....
Quote by William Shakespeare: He receives comfort like cold porridge....
Quote by Mark Twain: Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in...
Quote by Dave Barry: There's an old saying among scientific guys:
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Life is like a box of terrible analogies....
Quote by Tupac Shakur: Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans....
Quote by Winston Churchill: Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never ...
Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswor...
Quote by Wayne Gretzky: Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up....
Quote by Dave Barry: Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Wind...
Quote by Winston Churchill: Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distin...
Quote by Tupac Shakur: Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time....
Quote by Warren Buffett: You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life....
Quote by John Updike: I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - ...