Argument Quote by Robert South Download Open image “Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.” — Robert South ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Prove Simile Tedium
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South Copy Share Image
The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being… — Robert South Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South Copy Share Image
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion… — Robert South Copy Share Image
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a… — Robert South Copy Share Image
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame. — Robert South Copy Share Image
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the… — Robert South Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree… — John Rawls Copy Share
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
