Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

C. N. Bovée

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,—like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Women’s love, like lichens on a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Successful minds work like a gimlet, to a single point.

Nations, like individuals, are powerful in the degree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants—forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Repel one like a cudgel.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

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