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

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

Thomas Paine


There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.	1
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.	2
As fabulous as the immortality of the giants of mythology.	3
False as God is true.	4
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.	5
As impossible as that a man should walk in procession at his own funeral.	6
Increased as fast as the calendar of saints.	7
Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home, and lives where there seems nothing to live on.	8
He (Burke) rose like a rocket, he fell like a stick.	9
Sedate, like Plato.	10