Fire Quotes
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
What is life It is the 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
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
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!Abigail van Buren
Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.Alighieri Dante
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.Edith Sodergran
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
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
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
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.William Shakespeare
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
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
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
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.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.William Shakespeare
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
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
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
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.William Safire
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
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
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
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
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".
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
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
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
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
Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.Apple LaserWriter manual
