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

Thomas Paine

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

As fabulous as the immortality of the giants of mythology.

False as God is true.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

As impossible as that a man should walk in procession at his own funeral.

Increased as fast as the calendar of saints.

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home, and lives where there seems nothing to live on.

He (Burke) rose like a rocket, he fell like a stick.

Sedate, like Plato.

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