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1. “Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”

Winston Churchill

Lenin, Russia, War, Strategy, Metaphor

2. “Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

Winston Churchill

Enterprise, Perception, Economy, Balance, Metaphor

3. “Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

Winston Churchill

Dictatorship, Power, Danger, Metaphor, Control

4. “War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

War, Future, Peace, Construction, Metaphor

5. “The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Past, War, Peace, Future, Metaphor

6. “When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.”

John Lennon

Intensity, Love, Security, Duality, Metaphor

7. “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

Oscar Wilde

Beauty, Power, History, Romance, Metaphor

8. “Imagine yourself as a living house.”

C.S. Lewis

Metaphor, Self-Reflection, Identity, Personal Growth, Spirituality

9. “Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.”

C.S. Lewis

Faith, Belief, Nature, Metaphor, Reflection

10. “Forgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it.”

Mark Twain

Forgiveness, Kindness, Nature, Wisdom, Metaphor

11. “Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.”

Steve Jobs

Technology, Metaphor, Cognitive Enhancement, Innovation, Simplicity

12. “Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.”

Ernest Hemingway

Romance, Love, Games, Relationships, Metaphor

13. “The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

Ernest Hemingway

Golf, Rules, Reflection, Sport, Metaphor

14. “Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.”

Ernest Hemingway

Religion, Metaphor, Life, Reflection, Comfort

15. “Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago.”

Ernest Hemingway

Life, Humor, Metaphor, Experience, Resilience

16. “Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge, Metaphor, Time, Space, Causality

17. “Yes, life is a woman!”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Woman, Metaphor, Personification, Existence

18. “Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge, Metaphor, Philosophy, Learning, Discovery

19. “Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom, Metaphor, Philosophy, Nature, Perception

20. “A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Metaphor, Philosophy, Perception, Clarity

21. “I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.”

Thomas Edison

Health, Alcohol, Philosophy, Wellbeing, Metaphor

22. “A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.”

Thomas Edison

Success, Effort, Philosophy, Perseverance, Metaphor

23. “A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton.”

Benjamin Franklin

Humor, Irony, Nature, Metaphor, Wit

24. “Women are books, and men the readers be…”

Benjamin Franklin

Metaphor, Gender, Perspective, Curiosity, Relationships

25. “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fatigue, Overwhelmed, Stress, Metaphor, Emotion

26. “A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

Writing, Pen, Creativity, Metaphor, Expression

27. “The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.”

Henry David Thoreau

Sail, Life, Metaphor, Work, Effort

28. “Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.”

Charles Dickens

Prison, Layers, Metaphor, Imprisonment, Reality

29. “Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.”

Robert Kiyosaki

Politics, Economy, Stimulus, Metaphor, Opinion

30. “That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.”

Malcolm Gladwell

David and Goliath, Metaphor, Victory, Strength, Overcoming Odds

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