Avoid Quote by Cheshire Cat

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.

— Scott Adams

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.

— Lauren Kate

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

— Eliot Spitzer

“Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop up my nose, or against any man's metaphor.”

— William Shakespeare

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

— Max Black

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction…

— Max Black

“Farfetching. What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find…

— Ursula K. Le Guin