Metaphorical Comparison Quotes

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

When you look at the damage that many of the policies that Donald Trump has proposed can do to our citizens of the US - you can compare him to Major Storms Harvey, Irma, Maria. We're talking about life or death issues and about repealing the Affordable Care Act. There are lives at stake. Something that would affect millions and millions of people. I think it's totally appropriate. Obviously, it's a metaphor. It's not to be taken literally. But I mean that when I talk about the damage and the trauma that has been brought into our lives because of his presidency, that that's very real.

I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.

I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong...with a spoon in them.

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.