#Metaphor Quotes

“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”

“Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.”

“All the world's a stage.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”

“Death-counterfeiting sleep.”

“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

“Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.”

“The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.”

“The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.”

“Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.”

“We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.”

“...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.”

“When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”

“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

“Movies are like writing history with lightning.”

“... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.”

“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”

“He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.”

“The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.”

“Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.”

“The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.”

“I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.”

“Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.”

“The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.”

“Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.”

“One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.”

“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.”

“If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.”

“Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.”

“I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.”

“Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.”

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.”

“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”

“All the months are crude experiments,out of which the perfect September is made.”

“Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.”

“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”

“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”

“It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.”

“Language is wine upon the lips.”

“A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.”

“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”

“When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,Sirius appears, and on the horizon blackBids countless stars pursue their mighty track.”

“Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.”

“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.”

“The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.”

“An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.”

“Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.”