Dead Metaphors

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or metaphors:

    O may I join the choir invisible
    Of those immortal dead who live again
    In minds made better by their presence:
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    This fellow mixes his metaphors the way a toper does his drinks and, I daresay, gets just as tipsy on them.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)