Metaphor Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old metaphor quotes, metaphor sayings, and metaphor proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. Richard Whately
Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry. Jacob Bronowski
The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed G.R. Gopinath
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. Richard Rohr
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. Georg C Lichtenberg
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects. Pierre Bourdieu
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. Jose Ortega Y Gasset
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Antisthenes Pinto
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards. Jose Bernardo
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Milan Kundera
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. Robin Morgan
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. Aristotle
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. James Russell Lowell
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. Jose Ortega Y Gasset
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. Chuck Palahniuk
A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth. Matthew Woodring Stover
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Gilbert K Chesterton