“Description Beggared: or the allegory of WHITENESS,”
Mac Wellman
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful”
Joseph Addison
“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.”
Bible
“Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.”
D. T. Niles
“Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who has become happy by contracting the vices of the wicked?”
Chanakya
“We are all beggars, each in his own way.”
Mark Twain
