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Figurative Analogies

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. (Phyllis Diller)

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog the scenery never changes. (Lewis Grizzard)

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen. (John Steinbeck)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. (Buddha)

Biblical Figurative Analogies

The Kingdom of Heaven is like…

a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds; ...when it grows up it is the biggest of all plants.

a treasure hidden in a field. A man happens to find it...sells everything he has and buys the field.

a net thrown out in the lake, which catches all kinds of fish. ...the good ones go into their buckets, the worthless ones are thrown away.

the owner of a vineyard who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work...