A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Tags: humor obvious simile



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He's like a drug for you, Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

Tags: simile drug romance



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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tags: attributed-no-source books simile soul



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A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

Tags: books simile house windows



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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Lemony Snicket

Tags: humor simile fate



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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Thomas Paine

Tags: simile stubbornness close-mindedness



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Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Jodi Picoult

Tags: simile uncertainty



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Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: simile metaphor



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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Tags: simile character appearances substance



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