Insight Metaphors, Analogies and Similes
Beauty without intelligence is a masterpiece painted on a napkin.
Trust is like an eraser it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
The real underworld is profoundly different from the underworld of fiction, just as the act of love differs from adolescent fantasy.
Pieces of advice stick to your teeth like soft caramels.
How anything so remarkable as consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as remarkable as the appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.
A generation who self-mutilate are desperate to combat the anaesthetic numbness of modernity.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
The man without ambition is like the woman without beauty.
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules are what we call the Laws of Nature, the player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowances for ignorance.
Becoming a full-time professional gambler is like planning to move to a city built in the clouds by birds.
The silly question is the first intimation of a totally new development; profoundly simple ideas lie within the reach of only complex minds.
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and love Him as they love their cow — for the milk, cheese and profit it brings them.
Life is like a game of cards: the hand you are dealt represents determinism, the way you play is free will.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpalatable reality; they are dress rehearsals.
A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
An ounce of explanation is worth a pound of eraser shavings.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is, and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
You are told a particular room full of pupils is Class 1A. You ask each pupil but each only gives his or her name. You conclude that 'Class 1A' doesn't exist. A category mistake. Class 1A is real and comprises of the pupils — but never exists as anything that is 'Class 1A', which is not also something else: a particular pupil. God isn't an object, and therefore doesn't 'exist' in the way that other objects exist.
If we have disquiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions.
Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of ham and eggs: the chicken is involved but the pig is committed.
Ideologies separate us, dreams and anguish bind us together, and the dead from both sides can go to the same heaven.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Dreaming permits each of us to be safely insane every night of our lives.
Mental problems consist of a person becoming dislocated from the valuable experiences of their inner self; in sailing when a storm hits the boat and the sailor jettisons overboard vital stores.
Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
The strong whiff of Glastonbury psychobabble attempts to paint the lily or gild refined gold.
In your counselling, how quickly a facsimile of sympathy can metastasize into finger-pointing accusation.
Narrow-souled people are like narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make pouring out.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
The best mirror is an old friend.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking space at the end.
Each attempt at defining God is like placing a pebble on Brighton beach: some are a few feet nearer the water than others, but that doesn't mean much when the place one is trying to approach is North Africa.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
The use of logic in thought is as necessary as the use of perspective in painting — but only as a medium of expression, not as the sole criterion of reality.
A prince who writes against flattery is as strange as a pope who writes against infallibility.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof.
If a man's fortune doesn't fit him then it's like the shoe in the story: if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Wishing to be a friend is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
It's no more sensible to try to analyse the human brain in the hope of discovering the seeds of cultural history than it is taking a Stradivarius apart, in order to discover why a violin concerto is so moving.
The grass is greener; the other supermarket queue, faster.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor does mankind as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
A real miracle isn't so much a cute thing, but more shocking like a swing of a sword.
Censure is the tax a man pays for being eminent.
A woman is like a tea-bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Success has a thousand fathers but failure is always an orphan.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by mediocrities.
Success without honour is like an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger — but taste poor.
The mind is like a sheet of white paper, in that, the impressions it receives the most, and retains the longest, are black ones.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
If you board the wrong train then it's no use running along the corridor in the wrong direction.
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