A metaphor is like a simile.

We do not sustain ourselves in virtue by our own strength, but by the balancing of two opposed vices, just as we remain upright amidst two contrary gales. Remove one of the vices, and we fall into the other.

Blaise Pascal

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Lewis Black

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry Bolingbroke

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

Krista Allen

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

William Shakespeare

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Joseph Addison

The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

Epicharmus

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself.

Charles Dickens

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

Barbara Barrington Jones