Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Passion
Passions are like fire and water, good servants, but bad masters.
—Anonymous
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
—C. N. Bovée
A man without a passion is like a vessel waiting for wind and not budging.
—Arsène Houssaye
Passions are like roses, the more you cut them, the more they grow.
—Arsène Houssaye
Passions are cheap things, common as nuts, and just as often rotten.
—George W. Lovell
Passions, among pure thoughts hid,
Like serpents under flowerets sleeping.
—Thomas Moore
Passion, like the sun at noon,
That burns o’er all he sees,
Awhile as warm, will set as soon—
Then, call it none of these.
—Thomas Moore
Our passions are like convulsive fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us weaker ever after.
—Alexander Pope
Passions are likened best to floods and streams; the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
—Sir Walter Raleigh
Passions are like storms which, full of the present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
—Sir George Ramsay
Our passions, like the seasons turn;
And now we laugh, and now we mourn.
—Nicholas Rowe