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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Change
 
  Change as woman, wind and fortune.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Change, like Proteus.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Change, like women’s thoughts and winter weather.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Changeable as the moons.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Changeful as the ocean bar.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Quickly changed as are the winds.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  6
  As changeful as the lights which flick and flash from off the facets of the diamond.
            —Heather Bigg		  7
  Changest, as the wind upon the wave.
            —Hugh H. Brackenridge		  8
  Changes like the moonlit cloud.
            —Richard Henry Dana, Jr.		  9
  Changeable as a woman’s whims.
            —George Farquhar		  10
Thy song is changeful as yon starry frame,
End and beginning evermore the same.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  11
  Change … like unto the Camelion whiche upon every sondre hewe, that he behalt, he mote newe his colour.
            —John Gower		  12
  Changeful as a child.
            —John Imlah		  13
Fortune changeth as the moon
To caravel and picaroon.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  14
  Changeful … as are the waves before the breath of winds.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  15
Changeful as the neck of dove
In colour.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  16
  Changeful … as windwaved flame.
            —James Russell Lowell		  17
  Changes color as a maid at sight of sword and shield.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  18
  In affection, as light and changeful as the gaudy fly which hastens to the rose with eager speed, and on its damask leaves, with fond embrace, flutters her painted wings a little while, but lift she but her eyes, and the first thistle flower that catches them catches her fancy too, and thither speeds she.
            —William J. Mickle		  19
But now a change came o’er my dream,
Like the magic lantern’s shifting slider.
            —Thomas Moore		  20
  As changeful as the spring.
            —Lewis Morris		  21
Changed like one who knows his time must be
But short and bitter.
            —Lewis Morris		  22
  Changeful as the lunar ray.
            —Petrarch		  23
Like April, she may wear a changeful face
Of storm and sunshine.
            —James Pilgrim		  24
  Changeful as a madman’s dream.
            —Winthrop Mackworth Praed		  25
        Like leaves, as chance inclin’d,
Those wills were chang’d with every wind.
            —Matthew Prior		  26
  Changeable, like the sparrow, who stops not on one twig.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  27
  Like a chameleon, he changes.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  28
  Changed me like a glove.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  29
  Chang’d, like form in a dream.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  30
  Changes as a guilty dream.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  31
Ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no objects worth its constancy.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  32
  Change like the face of fortune.
            —Robert Southey		  33
  Changed as a cloud in the night.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  34
  Changeful as the sea.
            —Bayard Taylor		  35
  Change like a weathercock.
            —Robert Tofte		  36
  Changeful as a lover’s hope.
            —Frank Waters		  37
  Changeful as the April sky.
            —William Winter		  38
 
 
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