Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | Society |
| Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimatedtoo 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 flowr, 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 airnecessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana | 8 |
Society is in this respect like a firethe 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 | |
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