Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Welcome (Adjective)
Welcome as land to sailors long at sea.
—Æschylus
About as welcome as a bullet.
—Anonymous
Welcome as water in a leaking ship.
—Anonymous
About as welcome as a coffin at a wooden wedding.
—Anonymous
Welcome as the clang of the dinner bell.
—Anonymous
Welcome as an engagement ring to an old maid.
—Anonymous
Welcome as a good-natured friend who makes short calls.
—Anonymous
Welcome as dew on parched flowers.
—Anonymous
As welcome as sunshine
In every place
Is the beaming approach
Of a good-natured face.
—Anonymous
Welcome as a rainstorm in Hell.
—George Vaux Bacon
Welcome as Eden.
—Lord Byron
Welcome, like one tiny islet of Reality amid the shoreless sea of Phantasms, to the reflective mind, seriously loving and seeking what is worthy and memorable, seriously hating and avoiding what is the reverse, and intent not to play the dilettante in this world.
—Thomas Carlyle
Welcome as water into one’s shoes.
—M. A. Denham (Folk-lore North of England)
As welcome as the haven to the tempest-driven ship.
—Bartholomew Dowling
Welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
Welcome as a pole-cat at a picnic.
—Charles Henderson
Welcome as peace after destructive war.
—Robert Herrick
Welcome as the bird to the elm-tree bough.
—James Russell Lowell
Welcome as a boon long sought.
—Evan MacColl
Welcome as stones in oats to horse.
—News from Chelsmford
Welcome as flowers in May.
—John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)
Welcome … as the deluge of early spring rain.
—Francis S. Saltus
Welcome … as dewy cherries to the taste in June,
As shady lanes to travelers at noon.
—John Scott
Welcome hither
As is the spring to the earth.
—William Shakespeare
The night to the owl and morn to the lark less welcome.
—William Shakespeare
Welcome as dogs unto a church they are.
—John Taylor
Welcome! as beauty to the lovesick swain,
For which he long had sigh’d in vain.
—William Thomson
Welcome as the discovery of a five-dollar bill in an old coat to a salaried man the morning before pay day.
—Walter Trumbull
Welcome as the rear view of a grizzly bear to a hunter who has left his firearms at home.
—Walter Trumbull
Welcome to my tranced view,
As battle-yell to warrior’s ear.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Welcome as a star.
—William Wordsworth