Similes Smiles

I admit it.  I'd forgotten all about similes. Merriam-Webster online defines them thusly:  "a figure of speech comparing two unlike things".  The following are adorable.

Cruel as the pinch of a painless dentist —Sydney Munden

Lively as grasshoppers —Samuel Lover

Glittering like the spangled dewdrop —Sir Walter Scott

Smug as April —Beaumont and Fletcher

Prancing like a bean-fed horse —Rudyard Kipling

Absurd as to ask a man if he’ll have salt on his ice cream —Anonymous

Foolish as an endeavor to make a lobster climb a tree and give a report of the atmospheric conditions —Anonymous

That Anonymous is pretty sharp.  Why, you might say sharp as a tack!  hahahahaha
Source:  A Dictionary of Similes By Frank J. Wilstach
as accessed through Bartleby.com