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

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

Society


Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated—too low down, a perfect choke-damp. —Anonymous	1
Society, like the Roman youth at the circus, never shows mercy to the fallen gladiator. —Honoré de Balzac	2
Man in society is like a flow’r, Blown in its native bed. ’Tis there alone His facilities expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use. —William Cowper	3
Society as cold as the glacier of an unsunned cavern. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	4
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. —Washington Irving	5
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. —Letitia Elizabeth Landon	6
Society, like a woman, requires a special painter to delineate it in accordance with its own taste. —Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve	7
Society is like the air—necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. —George Santayana	8
Society is in this respect like a fire—the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close like a fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns. —Arthur S. Schopenhauer	9
Society is like the echoing hills. It gives back to the speaker his words; groan for groan, song for song. —David Thomas	10