A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

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Similes are a good deal like Ford cars; you can get a good one secondhand and fix it up so you can’t recognize it yourself, but everyone else can.

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Similes in each dull line, like glowworms in the dark should shine.

- Edward Moore

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I went out on a date with Simile. I don’t know what I metaphor.

- Tim Vine

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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

- Joseph Campbell

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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

- Bernard Malamud

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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About as much zip as an inarticulate simile.

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“Safe Harbor” is a state of mind… it’s the place—in reality or metaphor—to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

- Luanne Rice

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Similes are like songs of love/they much describe/they nothing prove.

- Matthew Prior

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A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

Similes are a good deal like Ford cars; you can get a good one secondhand and fix it up so you can’t recognize it yourself, but everyone else can.

Similes in each dull line, like glowworms in the dark should shine.

I went out on a date with Simile. I don’t know what I metaphor.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

About as much zip as an inarticulate simile.

“Safe Harbor” is a state of mind… it’s the place—in reality or metaphor—to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Similes are like songs of love/they much describe/they nothing prove.

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