#simile

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#simile #taxation #economics

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#screams #simile #simile

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#addiction

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#simile #buddhism

As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well, except for that fact that boats are not generally round, orange and on fire. Hmm. Come to think of it, in no way whatsoever did the sun, in this instance, resemble a leaky boat. My apologies. That was a dreadful attempt at simile. Please allow me to try again. As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a self-luminous, gaseous sphere comprised mainly of of hydrogen and helium. ↗

— Cuthbert Soup

#dusk #funny #simile #sink #sun

My tears are like a whole pack of dogs on leashes; no matter how I try to tug them back, they just keep barreling forward. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#simile #communication

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #music #simile #song #life

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ↗

— Mark Twain

#simile #insult

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nearly-headless-nick #simile #insult