Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. - ANON.

Advice is like kissing it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. -JOSH BILLINGS.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, and the longer it dwells upon, the deeper it sinks into the mind. COLERIDGE.

To listen to the advice of a treacherous friend, is like drinking poison from a golden cup. - DEMOPHILUS.

Advice all the world over is like wind in a cage. In the case of lovers, like water in a sieve. PILPAY.

AGE.

last, and the heart which asks but for another heart to make it happy, will never seek in vain. BENTHAM.

Affection, like the nut within the shell, wants freedom. - DION BOUCI

CAULT.

The affections, like conscience, are rather to be led than driven. Those who marry where they do not love, will be likely to love where they do not marry. THOMAS FULLER.

The human affections, like the solar heat, lose their intensity as they depart from the centre, and become languid in proportion to the expansion of the circle on which they act. ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a telescope. - LEIGH HUNT.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes. — W. T. BURKE.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.R. H. BURTON.

As a tree the higher it is, the greater force the winde hath of it, and euerie little blast will bee puffing at it, so that the sooner and greater is the fall thereof So the Ambitious man, the higher he climeth, the greater is his fall.-ROBERT CAWDRAY'S "A TREASURIE OR STORE-HOUSE OF SIMILIES," 1600.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. - SIR JOHN DENHAM.

Amorous as a pair of love-birds.— ΑΝΟΝ.

Amorous as a parrakeet. — IBID. Amorous as an Arcadian. - GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER.

Ample.

Ample as the largest winding-sheet. - KEATS.

Ample as the wants of man. LONGFELLOW.

Amused.

Unbending their minds, and amused with every trifle; like birds, which, after the serious and important business of preparing nests for their young, fly sportfully about, free and disengaged, as if to relieve themselves from their toils. - CICERO.

Amusements.

Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame, — gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out. - DAVID THOMAS.

Ancestors.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is under ground. — SIR THOMAS OVERBURY.

Ancient.

Ancient as the CULLEN BRYANT.

sun. - WILLIAM

Ancient as the spot on which the bricks of Babylon are found. -J. FENIMORE COOPER.

Ancient as the stings of death. DE QUINCEY.

As ancient as the world. - GEORGE GRANVILLE.

Ancient as the stars. - VOLTAIRE.
Ancient as the sea.

Angel.

WALLER.

Like angel visits, few and far between. - CAMPBELL.

Anger.

Anger in our mirth is like poison in a perfume. - ADDISON.

Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time. ANON.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic to life.-J. G. HOLLAND.

Watch against anger; neither speak of it nor act in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconvenience. WILLIAM PENN.

Anger is like rain which breaks itself whereon it falls. SENECA.

Anger is like a full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, self-mettle tires him.SHAKESPEARE.

Angry as a waspe. - JOHN SKELTON.