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

J. Petit-Senn

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the light of the past.

The hearts of pretty women, like New Year’s bonbons, are wrapped in enigmas.

Love before marriage is like a too short preface before a book without end.

The miser swimming in gold seems to me like a thirsty fish.