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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Rich
 
  Rich as flakes of virgin gold.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Rich as Golconda.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Rich as lords.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Rich as mud.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Rich as the mint.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Rich in invisible treasures, like a bud of unborn sweets, and thick about the heart with ripe and rosy beauty.
            —Philip James Bailey		  6
  Rich as Crœsus.
            —Robert Burton		  7
  Rich as Stamboul’s diadem.
            —Lord Byron		  8
  Rich and as red as the mellowing blushes of maiden of eighteen.
            —Luiz Vaz de Camoëns		  9
  Richer than Ormuz bazaars.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  10
  Rich and ripe as Autumn’s store.
            —Hartley Coleridge		  11
  Rich as Pluto.
            —George Colman, the Younger		  12
  Rich as Chaucer’s speech.
            —Sydney Dobell		  13
  Rich as love.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  14
  Rich as the merchant ships that crowd the strand.
            —Francis Fawkes		  15
  As feathers do lift up, and carry high, the foules and birds of the aire: So the riches and dignities of this world, are wont to extol and carry men, into the air and clouds of vanitie.
            —Anthonie Fletcher (Certain Very Proper and Profitable Similes, 1595)		  16
  Rich as a platter of gravy.
            —Sewell Ford		  17
  Rich as newshorn sheep.
            —John Heywood		  18
  Rich as the rose’s dye.
            —Mrs. Richmond Inglis		  19
  Rich as a Millais in its tint and tone.
            —Gerald Massey		  20
  Rich as a rose can be.
            —Joaquin Miller		  21
  A wise rich man is like the backe or stocke of the chimney, and his wealth the fire; he receives it not for his own need, but to reflect the heat to others’ good.
            —Sir Thomas Overbury		  22
  Rich as an alum seller.
            —Osmanli Proverb		  23
  Rich as Job.
            —François Rabelais		  24
  As rich with unconscious art as the first song birds of May.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  25
  Rich as the robes of heaven.
            —John G. Saxe		  26
And I as rich in having such a jewel,
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
            —William Shakespeare		  27
                Rich …
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea,
With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries.
            —William Shakespeare		  28
  Rich as Emperor-moths.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  29
  Rich as for the nuptials of a king.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  30
  Rich as the pillars which support the sky.
            —William Thomson		  31
 
 
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