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

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

Plutarch


Expressed their alacrity, like horses full of fire and neighing for the race.	1
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.	2
Themistocles said that a man’s discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.	3
Good fame is like fire: when you have kindled it, you may easily preserve it; but if you once extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.	4
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.	5
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.	6
Pride is like vapour which ascendeth high, and presently vanishes away.	7
Good repute is like fire: once kindled, it is easily kept alive; but when extinguished, not easily lighted again.	8
Speech is like the cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure, while in thoughts they lie but in packs.	9