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

Certain

As certain as that a brook must have banks.
—Anonymous

As certain as that a squirrel will climb a tree.
—Anonymous

As certain as that your shadow will follow you.
—Anonymous

As certain as that the leaves will fall in autumn.
—Anonymous

Certain as gold.
—Anonymous

Certain as that a crooked tree will have a crooked shadow.
—Anonymous

Certain as that a person not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life.
—Anonymous

Certain as that light and heat come and go with the sun.
—Anonymous

Certain as that no mill no meal.
—Anonymous

Certain as that plants and animals grow and die.
—Anonymous

Certain as that sticks burn away in the fire.
—Anonymous

Certain as the movements of heavenly bodies.
—Anonymous

Certain as the multiplication table.
—Anonymous

Certain as that the ocean is the meeting-place of all waters; the skies, the meeting-place of all torches; the tongue, of all tastes; the nose, of all smells; the mind, of all precepts.
—Anonymous

Certain as the rising of the morning sun.
—Anonymous

Certain as that the Tweed runs from east to west.
—Anonymous

Certain as Christmas.
—Harold Brighouse

Certainly, as evening empties morning into night.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Certain as a gun.
—Samuel Butler

As certain as a tail will follow a comet.
—Thomas Carlyle

Certain to make his way there as a gimlet is to go through soft deal.
—Charles Dickens

A sound brain should always evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage’s calculating machine.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

As certainly as the thunder-crash follows the lightning.
—Charles James Lever

Certaine as wayes unto the blinde.
—Richard Lovelace

Certain as bodies moved with greater impulse, progress more rapidly than those moved with less.
—Voltaire

Certainly as day comes after day.
—William Watson