Fire Quotes
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In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
It is folly to punish your neighbour by fire when you live next door. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain.Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm (Quote by - Rutger Hauer)
As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity (Quote by - Ovid)
'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart (Quote by - Washington Irving)
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
You may fire when you are ready, Gridley. (Quote by - George Dewey)
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses fire, he you down with the butt end of it (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton. (Quote by - Len Hutton)
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. (Quote by - Proverb)
True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2 (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned. (Quote by - Saying)
When all you can hear is 'warning, warning, too low, too low' and you see eight fire engines chasing you down the runway, you know it's not too good (Quote by - David Jones)
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Hey - you guys with the ladder. If you come here I'll buy you pizza. (Quote by - Andy Roddick)
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. (Quote by - Harry Potter)
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower? (Quote by - Warren Hutcherson)
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. (Quote by - Horace)
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. (Quote by - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. (Quote by - John Lyly)
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. (Quote by - Comte De Bussy-Rabutin)
Fire is the most tolerable third party. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out. (Quote by - Henry Jackson Vandyke)
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. (Quote by - Odell Shepherd)
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. (Quote by - Elsa Maxwell)
The enemy could not have got a handful of men, through the cross-fire. (Quote by - John Bigelow)
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
The burnt child dreads the fire. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Quote by - Bible)
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
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 which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire. (Quote by - Jimmy Hill)
If this was a normal business I'd fire her. (Quote by - Ivan Massow)
Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire. (Quote by - John Milton)
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
All the fatt's in the fire. (Quote by - John Marston)
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Time is the fire in which we burn. (Quote by - Delmore Schwartz)
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. (Quote by - Proverb)
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. (Quote by - Proverb)
They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. (Quote by - Sir Thomas More)
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
A cold wind blew off Hanging Dog Mountain and I had no fire, nor dared I strike so much as a spark that might betray my hiding place. Somewhere near, an enemy lurked, waiting (Quote by - Louise L'amour)
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! (Quote by - James)
The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer (Quote by - Juhi Chawla)
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned. (Quote by - Diana Princess Of Wales)
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire. (Quote by - Clive James)
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic. (Quote by - Jack Handey)
The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom. (Quote by - Washington Irvin)
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Yeah, you lose equipment, You lose the stage. You lose everything else. But the fact of the matter is everyone got out OK. That's all we cared about. Everything else can be replaced. (Quote by - Chad Michael Murray)
Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him (Quote by - Sir Alex Ferguson)
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. (Quote by - Charles Kendall Adams)
Double, double, toil and trouble: Fire, burn, and cauldron, bubble. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Envy, like fire, soars upward. (Quote by - Livy)
We had to borrow Bolton Wanderers' team coach, we stayed at a Fawlty Towers hotel and the kick-off was delayed half an hour by a faulty fire alarm. I feared it wasn't our day. (Quote by - Paul Jewell)
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today the fire shines brightly (Quote by - Eskimo Proverb)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. (Quote by - Plutarch)
And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury; though little fire grows great with little wind, yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee. (Quote by - Bible)
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)
The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself and like the current flies Each bound it chafes. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Flame is very near to smoke. (Quote by - Plautus)
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. (Quote by - Hannah More)
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. (Quote by - J B Priestley)
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. (Quote by - W B Yeats)
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If Roy Keane were to go to Celtic to play football, it would be a case of out of the goldfish bowl, into the fire. (Quote by - Cathal Dervan)
Changing our party - changing our country. The fire of hope burning bright once again (Quote by - David Cameron)
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention-Henry V (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
As the turning of logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies will a dull brain (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
He's the sort of bloke who would run through fire. (Quote by - David Byas)
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. (Quote by - W.J. Cameron)
Words pregnant with celestial fire. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. (Quote by - Otto Weininger)
Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. (Quote by - Sam Walton)
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. (Quote by - George Herbert)
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. (Quote by - Patricia Cornwell)
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.' (Quote by - Friedrich Engels)
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Suicide is our way of saying to God, 'You can't fire me, I quit!' (Quote by - Bill Maher)
A crooked log makes a strait fire. (Quote by - George Herbert)
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire. (Quote by - Pocket Crossword Puzzles)
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire. (Quote by - Murray Walker)
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 the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire. (Quote by - William E Geist)
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. (Quote by - H G Wells)
Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. (Quote by - Dwight Moody)
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. (Quote by - Sarah Jessica Parker)
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. (Quote by - John Muir)
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. (Quote by - John Donne)
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day (Quote by - Sir Thomas Overbury)
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. (Quote by - Horace)
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. (Quote by - Hugh Latimer)
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. (Quote by - Bible)
Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth. (Quote by - Pindar)
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. (Quote by - Robert Fulghum)
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
When you are very old, and sit in the candle-light at evening, spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair'. (Quote by - Pierre Ronsard)
Sydney, whom we yet admire Lighting our little torches at his fire. (Quote by - Sir Aston Cokayne)
