| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | J. Petit-Senn |
| | | Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. | 1 |
| Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. | 2 |
| Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the light of the past. | 3 |
| The hearts of pretty women, like New Year’s bonbons, are wrapped in enigmas. | 4 |
| Love before marriage is like a too short preface before a book without end. | 5 |
| The miser swimming in gold seems to me like a thirsty fish. | 6 | | |
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