Analogy Quotes

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

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.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.