At least Singapore politicians kept their comments to rabbits, carrots and sticks (the quotes below are from an earlier session of Parliament, not the most recent one)...
I wonder if the speech-writer for the Minister of Education realised he or she had committed the "sin" of a dangling participle (not a dangling carrot) in this part of the speech he or she wrote for the minister...
Hey, "we" are not an analogy! The simple way to rectify the first part of that sentence is: "To use an analogy, we...".
Lest we humans get carried away by hubris, there's this humbling quote from the physicist Stephen Hawking on humanity in the wider scheme of things...
At least one man who became famous for his Star Trek role has not let success get to his head but has his feet planted firmly on the ground...
Meanwhile, in all the buzz over recent policy tweaks on cars and COEs, some inventive analogies were made by some of those in the industry!...
Finally, to end with a bang of sorts, here's actress Shu Qi's take on the making of promises in a relationship...
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