Fire Quotes

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. (Aesop)
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. View quote
George Sand
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. View quote
Plutarch
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. View quote
Paul Valéry
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm 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. View quote
Thomas Mann
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures. View quote
Heraclitus
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. View quote
William Hazlitt
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. (Washington Irving)
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. View quote
George Washington
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. View quote
Joan Crawford
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? View quote
Erma Bombeck
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." View quote
Bill Maher
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. View quote
William Shakespeare
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. (Nikola Tesla)
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. View quote
Frank Zappa
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. View quote
George Carlin
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, As fire is of light. View quote
Thomas Carlyle