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

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Worry

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• Life is like a simile.

  Terry Carr

  Life Is Like, Life Is

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

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Song, Argument

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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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• 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 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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• Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

  Albert Brooks

  Life, Happiness, Fear

  "Fictional character: Bob Diamond". "Defending Your Life", www.imdb.com. March 22, 1991.

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  Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Educational, Inspiration

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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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• Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Language, Marley

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• You don't have to get it right the first time.

  Barbara Sher

  Time, Firsts, Action

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.177, Dell

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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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• 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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