| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Robert G. Ingersoll |
| | | Sky as blue as June. | 1 |
| Candid as mirrors. | 2 |
| Direct as light. | 3 |
| Events, like the pendulum of a clock, have swung forward and backward, but after all, man, like the hands, has gone steadily on. | 4 |
| Falsehoods, like weeds, flourish without care. Weeds care nothing for soil or rain. They not only ask no help, but they almost defy destruction. | 5 |
| Patient as destiny. | 6 |
| Tender as the breast of a mother. | 7 |
| Unerring as light. | 8 |
| Whose talk is as busily useless as the babble of a stream that hurries by a ruined mill. | 9 | | |
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