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Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood. — Tom DeMarco

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

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery, — James Geary

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

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. — A.R. Ammons

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

Without inspiration, we're all like a box of matches that will never be lit. — David Archuleta

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. — Elon Musk

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

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be. — Ethan Hawke

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

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — Plutarch

Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken? — Aristotle.

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 like
Going 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 popular
to have everyone string along behind him like the tail of a kite. — Jodi Picoult

You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist. — Lily King

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

Sam smiled. "You know it always gets me hot when you say 'apt analogy. — Michael Grant

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

The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush. — J.D. Greear

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

It was like digging for gold in a garbage pile. And if that little analogy didn't tell her something, she didn't know what could. — Stacia Kane

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

Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute. — Mia James

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

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. — Herbert Read

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. — Jeff Hawkins

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken. — Ellen Dreyer

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler

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

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. — John Green

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later. — Dean Koontz

So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge. — Titus Lucretius Carus

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. — Abraham Lincoln

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

fleas are like a bad habit - awfully hard to get rid of once you get them — Haruki Murakami

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach

There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson. — Victor Hugo

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'. — Bill Maher

There is one absolute truth. The sum of my existence equals you. — Kristen Callihan

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different. — Kevin Spacey

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

It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means. — Henry Hazlitt

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

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. — Asa Gray