Fire Quotes

Dorothy parke - i went to a convent in new york and was fired...
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
George washington, first inaugural address, apr. 30, 1789 - the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty...
Confucius, the confucian analects - virtue is more to man than either water or fire....
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
De La Rochefoucauld.
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
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Buddha
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Gene Roddenberry
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
La Rochefoucald
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
Ernest Rutheford
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Love is friendship caught on fire.
Unknown
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
Michel de Montaigne
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Roosevelt, Eleano
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
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
Johnson
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca, Epistles
I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.
Apple LaserWriter manual
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.
La Rochefoucauld
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylo
There is no accountability in the public school system - Except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
Bhagavad Gita
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
George Walker Bush
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fulle
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".
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
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Joe Bob Briggs