Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
A dog will not make himself look like a horse just by cutting off his tail.
The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's.
When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.
Once you have been tossed by a buffalo, a black ox looks like a buffalo.
Be like the mouth and the hand: when the hand is hurt the mouth blows on it, when the mouth is hurt the hand rubs it.
If you try to cleanse others -- just like soap, you will waste away in the process!
Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.
When you treat someone like a wild cat, he will steal your chickens.
A dog doesn't like bananas, but he can't bear to think that chickens eat them.
Man is like pepper -- you only know him when you've ground him.
A spoken word is like a sparrow that once has flown away, cannot be caught again.
Married folk are like rats in a trap -- fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.
A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.
To a man wine is like water is to the boat; it can carry him or guzzle him up.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.
Instead I sounded like a little girl on her first day of kindergarten. My name is Bee, and I like coloring and horsies.
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me
As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.
