An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
H.L. MenckenTag: humor cabbage cooking fragrance idealism metaphors perfume roses similes
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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
Margaret AtwoodTag: writers on-writing similes authors disappointment epigrams fandom
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
Clive BarkerOld Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Tag: similes clichés nails well-worn-phrases
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.
You have never spoken before.
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Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
Andy ZaltzmanTag: similes twitter united-kingdom 2011 ed-miliband news-international-phone-hacking
Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands.
Marisa de los SantosTag: similes description personification
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Charles DickensTag: wisdom similes quotations clichés well-worn-phrases
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
Madeline MillerTag: beauty similes apt-phrasing
...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
John PiperTag: simile joy similes worship awesome
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