Quotes about Simile

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

Still passing through the same desolate country, we see that he makes a note on the forsaken fields and the watch-towers in them. Cucumbers are cultivated in large quantities by the natives of Inner Africa, and the reader will no doubt call to mind the simile adopted by Isaiah some 2500 years ago, as he pictured the coming desolation of Zion, likening her to a "lodge in a garden of cucumbers".