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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Sky as blue as June.

Candid as mirrors.

Direct as light.

Events, like the pendulum of a clock, have swung forward and backward, but after all, man, like the hands, has gone steadily on.

Falsehoods, like weeds, flourish without care. Weeds care nothing for soil or rain. They not only ask no help, but they almost defy destruction.

Patient as destiny.

Tender as the breast of a mother.

Unerring as light.

Whose talk is as busily useless as the babble of a stream that hurries by a ruined mill.