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

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

Experience


It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. We know by experience itself, that it is a marvelous pain, to find out but a short way by long wandering. And surely, he that would prove wise by experience, he may be witty indeed, but even like a swift runner, that runneth fast out of his way, and upon the night, he knoweth not whither. —Roger Ascham	1
Experience, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand, Whence harmonies, we cannot understand, Of God’s will in his worlds, the strain unfolds In sad, perplexed minors: deadly colds Fall on us while we hear, and countermand Our sanguine heart back from the fairyland With nightingales in visionary worlds. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2
Human experience, like the stern lights of a ship at sea, too often illuminates only the path we have passed over. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	3