Fire Quotes
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.Swedenborg
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.Hal Borland
Out of the frying pan into the fire.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.Marvin E. Wolfgang
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.George Carlin
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.Overlung
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.De La Rochefoucauld.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Time is the fire in which we burn.Gene Roddenberry
I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - For credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Socrates
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.Rig Veda
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit.Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!Abigail van Buren
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - As the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Maxims.La Rochefoucauld
