Top Simile Quotes

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Simile Definition

(n.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing.

No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing.

She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightni...

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie w...

...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long on the burner. And unsweetened, bitter chocolate. But there's dirt in it too, deep, dark dirt, l...

A simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what the...

Love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.

A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was...

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend WASweird

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mist...