A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel JohnsonMy parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.
Joel OsteenA hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho MarxI have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
Erma BombeckHouse guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
Erma BombeckThe spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola TeslaNo man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJournalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur SchopenhauerHave you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. MenckenThere’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.
Jerry SeinfeldMaking music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.
RihannaMy musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.
RihannaOur admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThat which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus AureliusTechnological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert EinsteinA lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.
Bob DylanFreedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.
Joyce MeyerI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil ArmstrongWriting free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert FrostWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee WilliamsI am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
Stephen KingHe does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William ShakespeareA lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine AlbrightMarriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry SeinfeldUntil I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
Dolly PartonI take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.
Angelina JolieHe who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da VinciTalking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert FrostConcede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham LincolnA pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TolkienWe have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.
Charles BukowskiAs you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.
Elon MuskThe supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert HubbardI never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard ShawI think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.
Marilyn MonroeA great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin FranklinLife would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
Robert Baden-PowellGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganThe life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
ChanakyaA professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. MenckenPolitics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. KennedyEvery 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 KiyosakiPersistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon HillPainting, I think it’s like jazz.
Brian EnoYou know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.
Steven WrightIf you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Elon MuskWith all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.
Dwayne JohnsonThe demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand RussellAny reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt VonnegutHis talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest HemingwayOne word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
Charles SpurgeonConsider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
Joyce MeyerThe feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel JohnsonCutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
Barack ObamaI tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
Elon MuskLife’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?
Conor McGregorThaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David ThoreauA two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfeld