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

Obstinate

Obstinate as a discharged school-director.
—Anonymous

Obstinate as a mule.
—Anonymous

Obstinate as death.
—John Dryden

Obstinate as a pig, will neither lead nor drive.
—Thomas Fuller

Obstinate … like the corpse in the fable, threatening the driver of the hearse with vengeance dire at every gate of fatal charnel-house.
—Sigmund Krasinski

Obstinate as sin.
—August Strindberg