Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.

Lemony Snicket

Stichwörter: humor inspirational love simile trust tree



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Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

Ernest Hemingway

Stichwörter: simile



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There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Solomon ibn Gabirol

Stichwörter: friendship simile



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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Edward O. Wilson

Stichwörter: simile conservation



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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Winston S. Churchill

Stichwörter: simile analogy public-speaking speaking



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The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

George R.R. Martin

Stichwörter: simile witty insult



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Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

Stichwörter: reality beauty simile water



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Indian summer is like a woman.

Grace Metalious

Stichwörter: simile first-sentence opening-lines



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Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.

Philip Pullman

Stichwörter: laughter simile humour joy amazement leadership mountain laughing warmth masculinity



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His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.

Laini Taylor

Stichwörter: simile angels daughter-of-smoke-and-bone



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