As bold as brass.
As hard as nails.
As bright as a button.
As daft as a brush.
As dry as a bone.
As proud as a peacock.
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews." (W. H. Auden.)
"…as happy as the grass was green." (Dylan Thomas, "Fernhill.")
"…love is like a ghost." (Coventry Patmore.)
"motherhood peels me bare
like a willow wand
some small child scrapes in the road
or throws in the pond." (Glenda Beagan.)
"Property is theft." (Proudhon.)
Computers are the vehicles of tomorrow.
"All the world's a stage." (Shakespeare.)
It's a dog's life.
"The parks are the lungs of London." (William Pitt.)
"I'm deep in a goldfish bowl." (Stereophnics, "goldfish bowl.")
Life's a bitch.
God is love.
"Man is Nature's sole mistake." (W. S. Gilbert.)
"Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse." (G. B. Shaw.)
"My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." (Fiona McLeod.)
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