Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
A metaphor is like a simile.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.
A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit. . . . They have to fit in context.
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.
Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
Life is like a simile.
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
