Birthday Quote by Jack Handey

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

— George Ade

Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And…

— William Butler Yeats

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire,…

— Barbara Steele

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

— Gavin DeGraw

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

— Bhartrhari

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And…

— Michel de Montaigne

the higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.

— Helen Jacobs

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

— Veronica Roth

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

— Anonymous

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

— Andrew Davidson

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

— Lee Harvey Oswald