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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
True
 
  True as that an apple is a fruit.
            —Franklin P. Adams		  1
  As true as God’s own word is here.
            —Gustavus Adolphus		  2
  True as the faithful watchdog of the fold.
            —Æschylus		  3
  True as the helm, the bark’s protecting guide.
            —Æschylus		  4
  True as a die.
            —Anonymous		  5
  True as God is in heaven.
            —Anonymous		  6
  True as gold.
            —Anonymous		  7
  True as holy writ.
            —Anonymous		  8
  As true as that nothing is but what is not.
            —Anonymous		  9
  True as that a man who has shaved has lost his beard.
            —Anonymous		  10
  True as that is is.
            —Anonymous		  11
  About as true as that the cat crew, and the cock rocked the cradle.
            —Anonymous		  12
  True as that the king has an egg in his pouch.
            —Anonymous		  13
  True as that the world is turned upside down every twenty-four hours.
            —Anonymous		  14
  True of his promise as a poor man of his eye.
            —Anonymous		  15
  True as the gospel.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  16
  True as written gospel.
            —Robert B. Brough		  17
                True
And pauseless as the pulses.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  18
  True as that heaven and earth exist.
            —Robert Browning		  19
  True as the dial to the sun.
            —Samuel Butler		  20
  As true as a shepherd to his flock.
            —Lord Byron		  21
  True as truth.
            —Madison Cawein		  22
  Trewe as any bonde.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  23
            Lovers be as trewe,
As eny metal that is forged newe.
            —Anonymous		  24
  True as turtill dove.
            —Anonymous		  25
  As trewe as ever was any steel.
            —Anonymous		  26
  True as a needle to the pole.
            —William Cowper		  27
  A clock so true, as might the sun control.
            —John Donne		  28
  True as an arrow to its aim.
            —Sir Francis H. Doyle		  29
  As true as Tristram and Isolde were.
            —John Dryden		  30
  True as the College clock’s unvarying hand.
            —George Ellis		  31
  True as thy coat to thy back.
            —George Gascoigne		  32
  True as the sun.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  33
  True as swallow to the roadless blue.
            —Emily H. Hickey		  34
  As true as God.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  35
  True as the dial’s shadow to the beam.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  36
  True as the watchman to his beat.
            —Thomas Hood		  37
  True as time.
            —Jean Ingelow		  38
  True as a gun.
            —Ben Jonson		  39
  True as innocence.
            —John Keats		  40
  True as the magnet is to iron.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  41
  True as the Apocalypse.
            —Amy Leslie		  42
  True as death.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  43
  True to one as a beggar to his dish.
            —Brian Melbancke		  44
  True as a barber’s news on Saturday night.
            —Thomas Middleton		  45
  True as stars.
            —Thomas Moore		  46
  True as the lute, that no sighing wakens.
            —Thomas Moore		  47
  True as the humming-bird flies with its message.
            —John Boyle O’Reilly		  48
  True as the Pentateuch.
            —Edgar Allan Poe		  49
  True as Heaven.
            —Earl of Rochester		  50
She kept in time without a beat
As true as church-bell ringers.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  51
True as steel, as plantage to the moon,
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre.
            —William Shakespeare		  52
  As true as truth’s simplicity.
            —William Shakespeare		  53
  As true as truest horse, that yet would never tire.
            —William Shakespeare		  54
            Keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night.
            —William Shakespeare		  55
  True as I live.
            —William Shakespeare		  56
  Is as true as black is blue.
            —John Skelton		  57
  Trewe as the gospell.
            —John Skelton		  58
  True as truth’s own heart.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  59
  A friend as true as guardian-angels are.
            —William Thomson		  60
  True it is, as cow chews cud.
            —Thomas Tusser		  61
True as the Stock-dove to her shallow nest
And to the grove that holds it.
            —William Wordsworth		  62
 
 
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