Fire Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Download Open image “Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.” — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fire Wit
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express:… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Might not most men be as well named boys grown old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency,… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold.... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
