Metaphor (30)

Aphorisms 30

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for… — Lemony Snicket The things you own end up owning you. — Chuck Palahniuk The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying. — Rohinton Mistry When the music changes, so must the dance. — African Proverb Truth is pounding on the door. Will you insist on not opening it? — Anonymous Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell Remember, politicians and diapers need to be changed frequently and for the same reason. — Robin Williams The beauty of roses lies in their transience. It is drifting away even as we inhale. We enjoy the win fully while… — Josh Waitzkin Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. — Rabindranath Tagore The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. — Rabindranath Tagore The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea… — Rabindranath Tagore Some people are like pictures, if you scale them up too much, they will lose their quality. — Anonymous I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin. — Stephen Bayne When you're in an earthquake on a unicycle juggling chain saws, the only way to survive is to tack down what you can… — Stephen Chakwin It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear… — Henry Ward Beecher Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain… — Robert Service Mosquitoes ruin safaris. — David Allen Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht If small men cast large shadows somewhere, the sun is setting there! — Confucius There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. — Swedish Proverb You are what what you eat eats. — Michael Pollan I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. — Helen Keller Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest. — Ralph Sockman Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson The wound is the place where the light enters you. — Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. — Miguel de Cervantes Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. — Henry Louis Gates Jr. We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories. And those that carry us forward are… — H.G. Wells He who does not crack the walnut's shell to reach its core assumes the whole walnut is shell. — Sultan II. Abdülhamid Han Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. — Malcolm Muggeridge