Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Dumb
Dumb as Philomel.
—Anacreon
Dumb as an oyster.
—Anonymous
Dombe as any stoon.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Doumb as a tree.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Dumb as a senator.
—William Cowper
Dumb as death.
—Sydney Dobell
Dumb as a fish.
—Ben Jonson
Dumb as the grave.
—John Keats
Dumb as pillar-posts.
—George Meredith
Dumb as a mouse.
—English Proverb
As dumb as a dead cuddy.
—Scottish Proverb
Dumb as a dream.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dumb and mighty, as a tree grows on a fruitful soil.
—Ivan Turgenev