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Metaphor Quotes by Famous Authors

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61. “Necessity is a violent school-mistress.”

Michel de Montaigne

Necessity, Learning, Hardship, Wisdom, Metaphor

62. “I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.”

Michel de Montaigne

Challenge, Confidence, Human Nature, Metaphor, Perspective

63. “Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Corruption, Wisdom, Human Nature, Metaphor

64. “We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.”

Michel de Montaigne

Ceremony, Substance, Human Nature, Critique, Metaphor

65. “Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Deception, Learning, Critique, Metaphor

66. “Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Freedom, Human Relationships, Critique, Metaphor

67. “The world is but a perpetual see-saw.”

Michel de Montaigne

World, Change, Balance, Human Condition, Metaphor

68. “Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.”

Michel de Montaigne

Revolution, Consequences, Politics, Human Nature, Metaphor

69. “The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.”

Michel de Montaigne

Moderation, Achievement, Balance, Wisdom, Metaphor

70. “The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”

Michel de Montaigne

Life, Death, Purpose, Human Condition, Metaphor

71. “My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”

Michel de Montaigne

Reason, Flexibility, Pride, Human Nature, Metaphor

72. “He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.”

Michel de Montaigne

Perception, Judgment, Subjectivity, Human Nature, Metaphor

73. “Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.”

Michel de Montaigne

Ambition, Public Image, Human Nature, Critique, Metaphor

74. “Let every foot have its own shoe.”

Michel de Montaigne

Individuality, Fit, Human Nature, Wisdom, Metaphor

75. “Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.”

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Risk, Gender, Human Nature, Metaphor

76. “I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.”

Michel de Montaigne

Creativity, Compilation, Originality, Metaphor, Intellectual Humility

77. “Not to go to the theater is like making one’s toilet without a mirror.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Theater, Self-reflection, Art, Experience, Metaphor

78. “Life is a stage where the worst actor plays the king while the best actor the beggar.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Metaphor, Roles, Perception, Existential Critique

79. “Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep, Mortality, Metaphor, Life Cycle, Existential Thought

80. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Greatness, Solitude, Individuality, Metaphor, Inspiration

81. “In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Youth, Anticipation, Life, Metaphor, Imagination

82. “It's the niceties that make the difference; fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate, Choice, Life, Metaphor, Human Agency

83. “In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Youth, Anticipation, Life, Uncertainty, Metaphor

84. “In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Metaphor, Relationships, Dependency, Strength, Perception