Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
True
True as that an apple is a fruit.
—Franklin P. Adams
As true as God’s own word is here.
—Gustavus Adolphus
True as the faithful watchdog of the fold.
—Æschylus
True as the helm, the bark’s protecting guide.
—Æschylus
True as a die.
—Anonymous
True as God is in heaven.
—Anonymous
True as gold.
—Anonymous
True as holy writ.
—Anonymous
As true as that nothing is but what is not.
—Anonymous
True as that a man who has shaved has lost his beard.
—Anonymous
True as that is is.
—Anonymous
About as true as that the cat crew, and the cock rocked the cradle.
—Anonymous
True as that the king has an egg in his pouch.
—Anonymous
True as that the world is turned upside down every twenty-four hours.
—Anonymous
True of his promise as a poor man of his eye.
—Anonymous
True as the gospel.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
True as written gospel.
—Robert B. Brough
True
And pauseless as the pulses.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
True as that heaven and earth exist.
—Robert Browning
True as the dial to the sun.
—Samuel Butler
As true as a shepherd to his flock.
—Lord Byron
True as truth.
—Madison Cawein
Trewe as any bonde.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Lovers be as trewe,
As eny metal that is forged newe.
—Anonymous
True as turtill dove.
—Anonymous
As trewe as ever was any steel.
—Anonymous
True as a needle to the pole.
—William Cowper
A clock so true, as might the sun control.
—John Donne
True as an arrow to its aim.
—Sir Francis H. Doyle
As true as Tristram and Isolde were.
—John Dryden
True as the College clock’s unvarying hand.
—George Ellis
True as thy coat to thy back.
—George Gascoigne
True as the sun.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
True as swallow to the roadless blue.
—Emily H. Hickey
As true as God.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland
True as the dial’s shadow to the beam.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
True as the watchman to his beat.
—Thomas Hood
True as time.
—Jean Ingelow
True as a gun.
—Ben Jonson
True as innocence.
—John Keats
True as the magnet is to iron.
—Walter Savage Landor
True as the Apocalypse.
—Amy Leslie
True as death.
—Christopher Marlowe
True to one as a beggar to his dish.
—Brian Melbancke
True as a barber’s news on Saturday night.
—Thomas Middleton
True as stars.
—Thomas Moore
True as the lute, that no sighing wakens.
—Thomas Moore
True as the humming-bird flies with its message.
—John Boyle O’Reilly
True as the Pentateuch.
—Edgar Allan Poe
True as Heaven.
—Earl of Rochester
She kept in time without a beat
As true as church-bell ringers.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
True as steel, as plantage to the moon,
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre.
—William Shakespeare
As true as truth’s simplicity.
—William Shakespeare
As true as truest horse, that yet would never tire.
—William Shakespeare
Keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night.
—William Shakespeare
True as I live.
—William Shakespeare
Is as true as black is blue.
—John Skelton
Trewe as the gospell.
—John Skelton
True as truth’s own heart.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
A friend as true as guardian-angels are.
—William Thomson
True it is, as cow chews cud.
—Thomas Tusser
True as the Stock-dove to her shallow nest
And to the grove that holds it.
—William Wordsworth