Fire Quotes

4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a… — Rajneesh
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess… — Baltasar Gracian
Flame is very near to smoke. — Plautus
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. — Miguel de Cervantes
Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men… — Winston Churchill
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. — Isaac D'Israeli
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. — William Shakespeare
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. — William Shakespeare
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire. — William Shakespeare
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires… — William Shakespeare
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate… — William Shakespeare
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow… — William Shakespeare
Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood. — William Shakespeare
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare
Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of… — Ambrose Bierce
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. — John Updike
I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all… — Albert Schweitzer
Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories,… — Charles Dickens
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. — Alexander Smith
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs… — Carolyn Wells
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. — George Herbert
A crooked log makes a strait fire. — George Herbert
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. — George Herbert

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