Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
quote by Samuel Butler
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The Naked Ride Home
Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home I said
Knowing she never could pass on a dare
And knowing it sounded more desperate than reckless or bold
I just put it out there cold, too far gone to care
My eyes on the road, she slid herself down in the seat
And a vision of paradise swung into view
Across those five lanes not one driver glanced over to see
The beauty known only to me, and a big rig or two
On that freeway the light was receding
Her beauty, a sight so misleading
I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone
On the naked ride home
With the trace of a smile and that defiant look in her eye
She hurtled through space in a world of her own
And turning aside my caress spoke of all that she'd not yet done
As if I was the doubting one who would have to be shown
On that freeway the light was receding
Her beauty, a sight so misleading
I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone
On the naked ride home
She gathered her clothes
And ran through the yard in the dark
Up onto the porch like a flash, and inside
Then one room at a time
I watched every light in our house come on
Like the truth that would eventually dawn,
Forcing me to decide
But on that freeway the light was receding
Her beauty, a sight so misleading
I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone
On the naked ride home
song performed by by Jackson Browne
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Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.
quote by Dave Storer
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
quote by Thomas Sowell
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
quote by Robyn Hitchcock
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
quote by Herbert Spencer
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It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
quote by Robert Armstrong
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There is nothing I can see in his even temper but the misleading modesty of an iceberg.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
quote by Leo Burnett
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Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.
quote by Gustav Stresemann
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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
quote by Edward Sapir
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
quote by Anita Brookner
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
quote by Ernest Holmes
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The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.
quote by Grace Napolitano
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Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
quote by Osama bin Laden
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
quote by Russell Baker
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The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
quote by Hjalmar Branting
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One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
quote by Matthew Lesko
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Vulture
St. Thomas Aquinas thought
That vultures were lesbians
And fertilized by the wind.
If you seek the facts of life,
Papist intellectuals
Can be very misleading.
poem by Kenneth Rexroth from A Bestiary (1956)
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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