Metaphor Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

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

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

— Milan Kundera

“Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.”

— Milan Kundera

A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good.

— Scott Adams

“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false…

— G. Willow Wilson

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

— Jose Bernardo

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

— John Green

Most unpleasant metaphor. Please avoid it in the future.

— Cheshire Cat

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

— Rae Armantrout

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

— John Cheever

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

— Edward Gorey