Fire Quotes
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.Michel de Montaigne
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.La Rochefoucauld
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
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Time is the fire in which we burn.Gene Roddenberry
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
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
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.Marvin E. Wolfgang
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Husbands are like fires - They go out when unattended.Zsa Zsa Gabo
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
What is life? It is a 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
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
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
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
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - As the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Maxims.La Rochefoucauld
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.Dorothy Parke
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
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.Samuel Butle
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
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
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.La Rochefoucald
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
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.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.Plutarch
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
Out of the frying pan into the fire.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi
We feel free when we escape - - Even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.Eric Hoffe
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
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
