Eye Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg Download Open image “A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eye Metaphor Police Should
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. — Max Black Copy Share Image
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
If you take your eye off the ball or lose focus for even a minute you can lose a game against any team. — Felipe Anderson Copy Share Image
“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling. — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
