Fire Quotes
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.Swedenborg
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.Michel de Montaigne
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
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
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.Sam Walton
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.Vincent Van Gogh
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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
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
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving
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
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.Samuel Butle
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, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
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
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.Publilius Syrus
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!Abigail van Buren
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.
Time is the fire in which we burn.Gene Roddenberry
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
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.La Rochefoucald
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.William Shakespeare
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.Edith Sodergran
Husbands are like fires - They go out when unattended.Zsa Zsa Gabo
