Analogies Quote by Dorothy Parker

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy…

— Konrad Lorenz

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

— Charles Baxter

I'm no good at anecdotes.

— Kelly Macdonald

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

— Jim Davis

“The Dog and the Cow,” an experimental fable. Once upon a time another cow asked another dog: “Why have you not swallowed your trunk?”…

— Eugène Ionesco

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

— John Muir

“Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a “life-is-like-this” on the page. I…

— Chila Woychik

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people…

— Alice Munro

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

— Mark Rothko

“analogy to illustrate this phenomenon”

— Anonymous

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been debunked.

— D. V. Ager

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

— Anonymous