Fire Quotes
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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 diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.La Rochefoucauld
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.Samuel Butle
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.Michel de Montaigne
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.Maitri Upanishads
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.Eleanor Roosevelt
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
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
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.La Rochefoucauld
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.Dwight D Eisenhowe
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.William Shakespeare
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.Edith Sodergran
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
We feel free when we escape - - Even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.Eric Hoffe
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps 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
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
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.Apple LaserWriter manual
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
