Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to…

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en…

— William Shakespeare

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that,…

— William Shakespeare

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house…

— Henry David Thoreau

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

— Kevin Keegan

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

— Steve Martin

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

— Marian Anderson

It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is…

— Primo Levi

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.

— Tim Vine

Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad…

— Kyle Dunnigan

And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of…

— Wendell Berry

Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

— George Herbert

There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.

— Angie Sage

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the…

— John James Audubon