#analogy

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest ↗

— Winston Churchill

#public-speaking #simile #speaking #speech

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity ↗

— Stephen King

#analogy #disapproval #motto #pacifism #paradox

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#another #belong #cannot #fallacy #languages

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#body #contact #divine #life #soul

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

#between #external #first #first of all #i

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#analogy #believer #believers #between #church

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

#came #derived #equity #evidence #first

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#least #misleading #often #thing #though

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#across #analogy #communication #essence #feel

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#rain