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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
— Winston S. Churchill
That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way, said Ponder. Adora
— Terry Pratchett
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
— Richard M. Nixon
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
— T. E. Hulme
history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.
— Henry Kissinger
And analogies were mostly meaningless - a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy).
— Kim Stanley Robinson
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.
— Russell Brand
analogy to illustrate this phenomenon
— Kid Reads
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
— Jonathan Haidt
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
— Yann Martel
She stared down into her coffee, as if she had more to say, but the words had fallen into the mug and were now too soggy to use.
— Rachel Vincent
By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family.
— Ross Parsley
When a child is young," Burck explained one night (perhaps he was relating Hauber's analogy), "you can catch him if he falls. Then he
— Blake Bailey
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
— William Kingdon Clifford
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.
— J.K. Rowling
The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
— David Levithan
Analogy cannot serve as proof.
— Louis Pasteur
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
— Muhammad Iqbal
I do not understand this analogy, Mencheres muttered.
— Jeaniene Frost
I'm really great at making terrible analogies.
— Joel Edgerton
One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
— Dudley Field Malone
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
— Christopher Hitchens
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.
— Edouard Vuillard
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
You like that analogy? That was pretty good?
— Shaquille O'Neal
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
— Kenneth Clark
A college football game is a superb analogy for religion.
— Jonathan Haidt
I am lost without my Boswell.[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] — Arthur Conan Doyle
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar
Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I know he didn't mean to be popularto have everyone string along behind him like the tail of a kite. — Jodi Picoult
Gregory of Nazianzus was amused by any who would insistently hold "God to be a male" which he regarded as a misplaced analogy.
— Thomas C. Oden
People have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You
— Peter Watts
I remember the analogy you gave, comparing worry to a rocking chair. 'It keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
— Diane Moody
Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
— Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like an analogy.
— Aaron Allston
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
— Rick Perlstein
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It's a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
— Terry Pratchett
In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to a human being with his skin removed.
— Erik Larson
This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Well, you know what they say: Finding the right analogy is as hard as ...
— Patrick Rothfuss
This analogy can also be found in Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 20. [19]
— Michael Hardin
Proof by analogy is fraud.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while.
— Django Wexler
E-books are impervious to analogy.
— Scott Adams
I was feeling like a rock in a stream with the water passing by me, not fully engaging in life with this heavy burden hanging over me.
— Lisa Bonavita
An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on
— Gillian Jacobs
Analogy pervades all our thinking,
— George Polya
Children entering or in kindergarten will take the Level A exam, which has Pattern Completion and Reasoning by Analogy questions.
— Testing Mom LLC
The idea to write this book hit me like a bad analogy.
— Special Snowflake
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.
— Gerhard Richter
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
— Henry David Thoreau
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
— Antonin Artaud
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
— Robert Robinson
Nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
— Carlos Fuentes
You see, I just love analogies. Give me a good old analogy any day.
— James St. James
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
— Benjamin Disraeli
So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.
— Titus Lucretius Carus
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
— Peter Morgan
The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
— Thomas Cathcart
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
— Stefan Banach
There is one absolute truth. The sum of my existence equals you.
— Kristen Callihan
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
— Wendell Berry
Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
— Albert Einstein
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
— Michael Mandelbaum
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
— Stephen King
