Fire Quotes

We feel free when we escape - - Even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Eric Hoffe

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

I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Alighieri Dante

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Joe Bob Briggs

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

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright

I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

George Washington

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

De La Rochefoucauld.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

J. B. Yeats

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Buddha

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

William Safire

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

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

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.

Apple LaserWriter manual

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

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Alighieri Dante

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 starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

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

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca, Epistles

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.

Curtis Dahl

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Aesop

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

George Washington