Metaphor Quotes

Metaphor is not merely a linguistic trick; it's a way of thinking, of connecting the unknown to the known, of illuminating understanding through imaginative portrayal. It reveals hidden similarities between seemingly disparate things, expanding our perception of the world and giving words power beyond their literal meaning.

These quotes delve deep into the art of metaphor, the secrets of language, and the power of figurative expression.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap...
Quote by Ray Bradbury: The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of cent...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: Fences are made for those who cannot fly....
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against ...
Quote by John F. Kennedy: Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell....
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words....
Quote by Heraclitus: History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's p...
Quote by Michael Jordan: I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet....
Quote by George Carlin: Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the ...
Quote by William Shakespeare: As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him t...
Quote by George Orwell: If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise....
Quote by Robert Frost: An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor....
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Necessity has the face of a dog....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing....
Quote by Eminem: I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheetI'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a ...
Quote by Victor Hugo: Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: All the months are crude experiments,out of which the perfect September is made....
Quote by Karl Marx: Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses...
Quote by Steve Jobs: The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shore...
Quote by George Carlin: As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilat...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Death-counterfeiting sleep....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip...
Quote by Paul Simon: Sail on silver girlSail on byYour time has come to shineAll your dreams are on their waySee how they...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not....
Quote by Will Rogers: One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next....
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor fo...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion....
Quote by Mitch Hedberg: On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite...
Quote by Margaret Thatcher: Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Language is wine upon the lips....
Quote by Charles Dickens: You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without l...
Quote by Erma Bombeck: Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing....
Quote by H. L. Mencken: He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite....
Quote by George Orwell: Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are no...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Life is the dancer and you are the dance....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers....
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinklin...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of ...
Quote by Dave Barry: There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you...
Quote by Will Rogers: This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler....
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidde...
Quote by Michael Jordan: Life is a sport...drink it up....
Quote by Charles Dickens: Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentimen...
Quote by Charles Dickens: Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, ...
Quote by Robert Frost: Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes al...
Quote by Woodrow Wilson: I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too of...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history...
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift....
Quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce: One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life....
Quote by Ronald Reagan: Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man....
Quote by Winston Churchill: Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ev...
Quote by Ray Bradbury: Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head....