Metaphor proverbs

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◆ Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

- Joseph Campbell98

◆ Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?

- Alex Flinn98

◆ Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

- Thomas S. Monson98

◆ All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe98

◆ Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

- Wallace Stevens98

◆ Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

- Winston Churchill98

◆ Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

- Elizabeth Gilbert98

◆ They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

- Martin Luther98

◆ Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

- E.M. Forster98

◆ Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

- Andrew Davidson98

◆ If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

- Maya Angelou98

◆ Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

- Thomas Fuller98

◆ She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

- Tamora Pierce98

◆ That cloak of love you were wearing—he's torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?

- Antonia Michaelis98

◆ Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

- Bodie Thoene98