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

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

Passion


Passions are like fire and water, good servants, but bad masters. —Anonymous	1
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. —C. N. Bovée	2
A man without a passion is like a vessel waiting for wind and not budging. —Arsène Houssaye	3
Passions are like roses, the more you cut them, the more they grow. —Arsène Houssaye	4
Passions are cheap things, common as nuts, and just as often rotten. —George W. Lovell	5
Passions, among pure thoughts hid, Like serpents under flowerets sleeping. —Thomas Moore	6
Passion, like the sun at noon, That burns o’er all he sees, Awhile as warm, will set as soon— Then, call it none of these. —Thomas Moore	7
Our passions are like convulsive fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us weaker ever after. —Alexander Pope	8
Passions are likened best to floods and streams; the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. —Sir Walter Raleigh	9
Passions are like storms which, full of the present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. —Sir George Ramsay	10
Our passions, like the seasons turn; And now we laugh, and now we mourn. —Nicholas Rowe	11