Archive for the ‘analogy’ Category
be, cake, call, cloth, cornbread, crap, crumble, cut, dry, eat, feed, fool, from, give, gratitude, quality, sad, same, substitute, thanks
In analogy, poetry, proverb on 20191224 at 11:55
Quality and crap are cut from the same cloth.
Feed a fool cornbread and call it cake —
and the fool will eat and give thanks.
But fool no one else, the dry, crumbly,
sad substitute of a cake will.
fool, intelligent, repress, repression, resolution, resort, respond, responsive, revenge, wise
In analogy, proverb on 20191204 at 23:55
The fool resorts to revenge.
The average resorts to repression.
The intelligent resorts to resolution.
The wise resorts to responsiveness.
branch, break, clean, continue, fruit, go, hand, have, limb, out, until
In analogy, aphorism, rumination on 20191111 at 23:55
Until she had the fruit in hand or until the branch broke clean, she would continue to go out on a limb.
be, bread, butcher, data, difference, disappoint, do, find, how, instruct, know, learn, metadata, offer, only, read, seek, teach, tell, what, why
In analogy, aphorism, proverb, rumination on 20161123 at 23:55
You are what you read.
Seek bread from a butcher and you will think that a butcher offers only disappointment.
If you seek to be told what to do, find an instructor. If you seek to learn why you might do it or how you should do it, find a teacher.
If instruction is data, teaching is metadata.
be, can, cubic zirconia, diamond, feet, fly, ground, mean, on, rough, shine, whether, with
In analogy, aphorism, proverb on 20161103 at 20:55
You can’t fly with your feet on the ground.
Whether you’re a diamond in the rough or a cubic zirconia in the rough, you are meant to shine.
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