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

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

Memory


Like to a coin, passing from hand to hand, Are common memories, and day by day The sharpness of their impress wears away. —Arlo Bates	1
Then Memory disclosed her face divine, that like the calm nocturnal lights doth shine within the soul. —George Eliot	2
Memory is like a purse, if it be overfull that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. —Thomas Fuller	3
His memory was like a miser’s pocket, from which you cannot entice a quarter of a kopek. —Nikolai V. Gogol	4
Sweet is the memory of departed friends. Like the mellow rays of the declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. —Washington Irving	5
Memory is like moonlight, the reflection of brighter rays from an object no longer seen. —G. P. R. James	6
Our memory is like a sieve, the holes of which in time get larger and larger; the older we get, the quicker anything intrusted to it slips from the memory, whereas what was fixed fast in it in early days is there still. —Arthur Schopenhauer	7
Memory like books that remain a long time shut up in the dust needs to be opened from time to time; it is necessary, so to speak, to open the leaves, that it may be ready in time of need. —Seneca	8