Simile Quotes

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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• A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

  Laurence Sterne

  Kings, Declaration, Concise

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.221

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• Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Marriage, Wind

  Twitter post from May 05, 2012

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• People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

  Bill Murray

  Music, Truth, Honesty

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• Life is like a simile.

  Terry Carr

  Life Is Like, Life Is

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• A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

  George McWhirter

  Smile, Eyeglasses, Together

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• Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

  Robert South

  Argument, Tedium, Prove

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• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

  James Geary

  Smile, Metaphor, Stills

  James Geary (2011). “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World”, p.8, Harper Collins

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  A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Jun 14, 2011

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  Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Worry

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

  Patricia Briggs

  People, Faces, Slinkies

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.867, Penguin

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• I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

  Tim Vine

  Metaphor, Knows

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• Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Song, Argument

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• A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

  Oscar Wilde

  Smile, Suicide, Depressing

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Never use a long word where a short one will do.

  George Orwell

  Long, Use, Figures Of Speech

  George Orwell (1961). “Collected essays”

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• Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Darkness

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2009). “Becoming Enlightened”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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  Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Educational, Inspiration

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• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Law, Break Through

  A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709) See Anacharsis 1

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• A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Clothes

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• Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Mean, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.1

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• My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

  John Quincy Adams

  Horse, Men, Race

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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