METAPHOR AND SIMILE!!

What is the meaning of metaphor and simile??at the first time i learn about it, for me both looks same but actually there is a differences.let me explain further about them.
Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another which it is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas plus, the analogy is conveyed by the use of a metaphorical word in place of some other word.
Meanwhile, the simile is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by using the words "like", "as", or "than".Even though similes and metaphors are both forms of comparison, similes indirectly compare the two ideas and allow them to remain distinct in spite of their similarities, whereas metaphors compare two things directly.

Here, the examples of metaphor:

Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them."
(George Savile, Maxims)

"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind."
(Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors)

 "The rain came down in long knitting needles."
(Enid Bagnold, National Velvet)

 "Language is a road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going."
(Rita Mae Brown)

 "Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."
(Austin O'Malley, Keystones of Thought)

"Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes."
(P.G. Wodehouse, The Color of the Woosters, 1938)

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."
(Faith Baldwin, Face Toward the Spring, 1956)

Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set.
(Mother Teresa, No Greater Love, 1997)

Love is a spice with many tastes--a dizzying array of textures and moments.
(Wayne Knight as Newman in the final episode of Seinfeld, 1998)

Love is a rose but you better not pick it.
It only grows when it's on the vine.
A handful of thorns and you'll know you've missed it.
You lose your love when you say the word "mine."
(Neil Young, "Love Is a Rose," 1977)

Now that you're gone I can see
That love is a garden if you let it go.
It fades away before you know,
And love is a garden--it needs help to grow.
(Jewel and Shaye Smith, "Love Is a Garden," 2008)

Love is a plant of the most tender kind,
That shrinks and shakes with every ruffling wind.
(George Granville, The British Enchanters, 1705)

Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
(John Galsworthy, The Man of Property, 1906)

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-trees, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers at the root to cover the ground.
(Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Chimney-Corner, 1868)

Love is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
(William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, 1609)

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
(Anita Brookner, interview with Olga Kenyon, 1989)

Love is a truck, love is a wall.

 Love is the master key that unlocks the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and most easily of all, the gate of fear.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, A Moral Antipathy, 1885)

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
(H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916)

Love is a beggar, most importunate,
Uncalled he comes and makes his dear demands.
(Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, "Love Is a Beggar," 1912)

Example of Simile

Sweet as odorous white lilies are

Sweet as a nut.

Sweet as a rose.

Sweet as a sugar plum.

Sweet as a vial of rose oil.

Kiss as sweet,
As cool fresh stream to bruised and weary feet.

Sweet as a honey bee.

Sweet as honeysuckle.

Sweet as sugar.

Sweet as the last smile of sunset.

Sweet and calm as is a sister's kiss

Life is like a roller coaster

Life is like a hurricane