Burns Quotes

538 Burns quotes by 448 unique authors

When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees… — Walter de La Mare
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it… — Thomas Paine
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and… — Mark Twain
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. — Friedrich Schiller
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the… — Jean Batten
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want to create the kinds of things that if the house burns down you want to run and save. — Marcel Wanders
George Burns was the father I never had — Bobby Darin
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h***… — J.K. Simmons
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient… — Charles Krauthammer
I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down. — Lara Spencer
I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things.… — Robbie Williams
I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot — Roy Orbison
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch… — Marsha M. Linehan
Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you… — Jackson Rathbone
Walking on rocks, hurts. Walking on glass, cuts. Walking on hot coals, burns. Walking on someones heart, kills. — Francisco Garcia
Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts. — Richard Crashaw
For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he… — Roger Bacon
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself… — Minor White
Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters. — Amy Winehouse
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart… — Mike Tyson
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One… — Heinrich Heine
Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a… — Charles Bukowski
If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed. — Amy Lowell

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