Metaphors Be With You Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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