Quotes on clichés

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

Virginia Woolf

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

Charles Dickens

“Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.”

L.J. Smith