Mixed Metaphors Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Toys to deftly pluck up like animal crackers and deposit safely into a crate decorated with friezes of bright circus trains carrying aardvarks, dodos, swift dromedaries, baby elephants, and plastic dinosaurs. A box of mixed metaphors.

Patti Smith

#3. 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

#4. You have buttered your bread. Now you must lie on it.

Beverly Rycroft

#5. From 1960-2015 Nigerians live under the rules of those who are above the law, but from 2015 we hope for a little change, and if there is no change in 2015, only God knows what will happened.

Hamzatribah

#6. You do realize you just mixed Disney metaphors, right? Disney metaphors. Wow, Calla, now I'm just sad for you.

Andrea Cremer

#7. There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.

Samuel Beckett

#8. An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.

Hannah Fry

#9. Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

Gichin Funakoshi

#10. When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Gerard Butler

#11. In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Homer