Simile quotes

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◆ A room without books is like a body without a soul.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero100

◆ Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.

- Suzanne Collins99

◆ Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

- Thomas Paine99

◆ The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

- Mark Twain99

◆ Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.

- Simone Elkeles99

◆ Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

- John Mayer99

◆ He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

- Cassandra Clare99

◆ Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

- John Green99