Quotes
Quotes about Fire
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher -Albert Schweitzer.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.
Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing. To wander along by the wind-beaten hill. But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Don't forget I know who you are. We were cut from the same surly star. Like two jewels in the sky sharing fire!
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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!
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Knowledge without religion will no more sanctify than painted fire will burn, or the sight of water cleanse.
By labor fire is got out of stone.
The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew, To where the Tiber pours his urn, She struck the rude Tarpeian rock; Sparks were kindled by the shock-- Again thy fires began to burn.
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.
Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Love is friendship set on fire. thanks to a subscriber -Jeremy Irons.
The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -Teilhard de Chardin.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
