Mixed Metaphor Sayings

#1. I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

Lydia Davis

#2. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

John Green

#3. Things are always less important once you're assured of having them.

Mary Gaitskill

#4. For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

Nennius

#5. The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

Bernard Levin

#6. Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. On a silent moonlit night look at the sky and see yourself dancing with those distant twinkling stars.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#9. The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

Nate Silver

#10. After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

Elliott Abrams

#11. For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!

Agatha Christie

#12. Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

James Surowiecki

#13. 14Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Anonymous

#14. Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ...

Robert C. Harvey

#15. But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

Hartley Coleridge