Many proverbs and quotes contain comparisons between objects or words. Here are some proverbs and quotes with analogies or similar comparisons.
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My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.
Robert BurnsProverbs are like butterflies, some are caught, some fly away.
Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else’s stinks.
Picket FencesTechnological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert EinsteinThe Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.
A.B. GuthrieThe good men seem to be like coconuts. Others are like the jujube fruit.
Beautiful only on the outside but sour inside.The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
John GreenThe idiot who has his eye on your wife is like a blood sucking fly.
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath TagoreThe words of elders are like the gooseberry: bitter at first, then sweet.
There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
E.W. HoweWe admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
Richard DawkinsWomen are like wasps in their anger.
Words are like the spider's web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.
Writing a tune is like sculpting. You get four or five notes, you get one out and move one around, and you do a bit more and eventually, as the sculptor says, 'In that rock there is a statue, we have to go find it'.
John WilliamsYosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.
Michael FromeYou are like a tick in a dog's ear.
You are like the butterfly that flies from flower to flower.
You are like the centipede, which walked perfectly until it tried to explain which leg went after which.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Thrones, Dominations
Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
BibleSource: Song of Solomon
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
BibleSource: Song of Solomon
Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
BibleSource: Song of Solomon