Mardy Grothe > Quotes

“Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.”
― Mardy Grothe

“Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.”
― Mardy Grothe

“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
― Mardy Grothe, I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

“I pick up favorite quotations, and store them in my mind as ready armor,
offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“Don't let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.”
― Mardy Grothe

“Metaphor is a way of thought long before it is a way with words.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
― Mardy Grothe, I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

“By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.”
― Mardy Grothe

“what may be the oldest analogy ever recorded, from around 1350 B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton was said to have observed: As the moon retains her nature,
though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain,
so the Soul remains perfect
even in the bosom of the fool.”
― Mardy Grothe, I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. —KURT VONNEGUT JR.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“Strunk & White”
― Mardy Grothe, I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

“Comfort was the author of The Joy of Sex, an illustrated 1972”
― Mardy Grothe, I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

“If a metaphor says A is B and a simile says A is like B, then an analogy says A is to B as C is to D.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—                               I took the road less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —ROBERT FROST”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“The American Heritage Dictionary definition says a metaphor is “an implicit comparison.” This unusual term is used for one reason, and one reason only: to distinguish it from a simile, which makes an explicit—or direct—comparison.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“Listening . . . means taking a vigorous,
human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium
where every sound comes back fuller and richer.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“A genius with the IQ of a moron. GORE VIDAL, ON ANDY WARHOL”
― Mardy Grothe, Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths – 1,400 Thought-Provoking Quotations for Language Lovers

“In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male,
vindictiveness of the female. —CYRIL CONNOLLY”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. —GUSTAVE FLAUBERT”
― Mardy Grothe, Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers

“An analogy says that A is to B as C is to D. A metaphor says that A is B, or substitutes B for A. A simile says that A is like B.”
― Mardy Grothe, I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes