Life Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Life


Life is like a tale ended ere ’tis told. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich	1
In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him. —Charles Buxton	2
Life, as a windmill, grinds the bread of Life. —Lord De Tabley	3
This Life, which seems so fair, is like a bubble blown up in the air by sportive children’s breath. —William Drummond	4
Life is like a game of whist. I don’t enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. —George Eliot	5
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. —Ralph Waldo Emerson	6
Man’s life is like unto a winter’s day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be. —Bishop Henshaw	7
Life is like yon fisher’s boat Gay she quits the friendly shore. —William H. Leatham	8
Life is, after all, like baccarat or billiards…. It is no use winning unless there be a gallery to look on and applaud. —Ouida	9
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. —John Paul Richter	10
Life, like the water of the seas, freshens only when it ascends upwards. —John Paul Richter	11
After all, life is like soda-water. Childhood, effervescence corked down and wired; manhood, some sparkle, more vapidity; old age, empty bottle, cart it away with the rubbish. —Thomas William Robertson	12
Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. By degrees as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived to reach a desert waste. —George Augustus Sala	13
Our life is like a journey on which, as we advance, the landscape takes a different view from that which it presented at first, and changes again, as we come nearer. —Arthur S. Schopenhauer	14
A wise man is never disappointed. Man’s life is like a game at tables; if at any time the cast you most shall need does not come up, let that which comes instead of it be mended by your play. —Thomas Shadwell	15
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. —Percy Bysshe Shelley	16
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. —Jonathan Swift	17
Life is like wine; who would drink it pure, must not draw it to the dregs. —Sir William Temple	18
When all is done, Human Life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a forward Child, that must be Play’d with and Humor’d a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the Care is over. —Sir William Temple	19
My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean’s edge as I can go. —Henry D. Thoreau	20
My life is like the summer rose That opens in the morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground—to die. —Richard Henry Wilde	21

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