Fire Quotes

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

William Fullbright

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Swedenborg

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Publilius Syrus

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

William Shakespeare

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.

La Rochefoucauld

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Gamal Abdel Nasse

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

Crowfoot

I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Husbands are like fires - They go out when unattended.

Zsa Zsa Gabo

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Joe Bob Briggs

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.

George Gordon Byron

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Dorothy Parke

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit.

Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.

Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann

Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.

Carl T. Rowan, Jr.

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

La Rochefoucald

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The very existence of flamethrowers 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.

George Carlin

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylo

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napolean Hill

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10