Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sure
Sure as monument of brass,
Their fame to future time shall pass.
—Arthur Acheson
Sure as a club.
—Anonymous
Sure as a stone drops from the hand which lets it go.
—Anonymous
Sure as birth and death.
—Anonymous
Sure as day and night succeed each other.
—Anonymous
Sure as eggs in April.
—Anonymous
Sure as gravity.
—Anonymous
As sure as Heaven.
—Anonymous
Sure as God’s in heaven.
—Anonymous
Sure as I’m standing here.
—Anonymous
Sure as March in Lent.
—Anonymous
Sure as needles point to the north.
—Anonymous
Sure as Silas Wegg is to drop into poetry.
—Anonymous
Sure as tares.
—Anonymous
As sure as that bubbles are in the form of a hemisphere.
—Anonymous
As sure as that wild goose never laid a tame egg.
—Anonymous
As sure as that the world is turned upside down every twenty-four hours.
—Anonymous
Sure as the coat’s on your back.
—Anonymous
Sure as the foot of a mule.
—Anonymous
Sure as the opportune arrival of the detective on the final curtain of a melodrama.
—Anonymous
Sure as the sun shines.
—Anonymous
Sure as the steeple bears the bell.
—Anonymous
Sure as two and two make four.
—Anonymous
Sure as water is water.
—Anonymous
Sure as you’re alive.
—Anonymous
Sure as shootin’.
—Anonymous
As sure as eggs and bacon.
—Anonymous
Sure as an obligation sealed in the butter.
—John Baret
Sure as a gun.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Sure as wedlock.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Sure as stars of hope.
—R. D. Blackmore
Sure as sunrise.
—R. D. Blackmore
Sure as you are there.
—John Bunyan
Sure as death.
—Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Sure as the wold gulls make seaward.
—Bliss Carman
Sure … as the witch-hazel towards treasure.
—George W. Curtis
Sure as a rock.
—John Davies
Sure as sun-up.
—Charles Dickens
Sure as the gospel.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Sure as roundness in the dewdrop.
—George Eliot
Sure as the devil’s in London.
—Henry Fielding
Sure as the fishes swim and birds do fly.
—Gerhart Hauptmann
Sure as a juggler’s box.
—William Carew Hazlitt (English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases)
Sure as Dover stands at Dover.
—Thomas Hood
Sure as a horse when he knows his rider.
—Richard Hovey
Sure as Time.
—Rudyard Kipling
Sure as the shaft that leaves the Parthian bow.
—Lucan
As sure as Heaven rained manna for the Jews.
—Christopher Marlowe
Sure as the date on a bill.
—George Meredith
Sure as earth lives under snows, and Love lives under pain.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Sure as fate.
—G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)
Sure as God made little apples.
—G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)
Sure as I’m alive.
—G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)
Sure as you are born.
—G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)
As sure as Christmas comes.
—George Outram
Sure as is the march of doom.
—Sandor Petöfi
Sure as death and taxes are.
—Poor Robin’s Almanack
As sure as cold engenders hail.
—Alexander Pope
Sure as key of lock.
—Matthew Prior
As sure as a gun is iron.
—Opie Read
Sure as the sun rolls up the morn,
Or twilight from eve is born.
—Charles Sangster
Sure as bark on a tree.
—William Shakespeare
Sure as day.
—William Shakespeare
Sure as I live.
—William Shakespeare
Sure as I have thought or soul.
—William Shakespeare
Sure as God made Moses.
—Sam Slick
Sure as eggs is eggs.
—Sam Slick
As sure as any gun.
—Horace Smith
As sure as wax-candles have wicks.
—Horace Smith
Sure as I hobble on ten toes.
—James Smith
Sure as night is known from day.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sure as present pain is.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sure as truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sure as sense of beast or bird.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sure as comes the postman and the sun.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Sure as creed.
—Izaak Walton
Sure as the most certain sure.
—Walt Whitman
Sure as brook to run to river.
—A. C. Wilke
As sure as there’s a moon in Heaven.
—William Wordsworth