Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Court
Court favors lie above the common road by modesty and humble virtue trod; like trees on precipices, they display fair fruit, which none can reach but birds of prey.
—Walter Harte
The court is like a marble statue, I mean, it may be finely polished but it is very hard.
—Jean de La Bruyère