Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Trouble
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
—Lady Holland
Troubles are like babies—they only grow by nursing.
—Douglas Jerrold
Troubled, like a fountain stirr’d.
—William Shakespeare
Troubled, as Cretan seas when vext by warring winds.
—Edmund Smith
Troubled, as if with anger or pain.
—Alfred Tennyson