Burn Quotes

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Athenaeus

Trust, Best, Friends

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
Sarah Bernhardt

Mind, Care, Smoke

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
Bob Hope

Humor, Good, Heart

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
Neil Young

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
Robert Byrne

Law, Protect, Electrical

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Friends, Old

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Neil Young

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.
Jerry Garcia

Enough, Problem, Ourselves

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
Al Gore

Change, Money, Future

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.
Albert Pike

Live, Fire, Off

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks

I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.
Jonathan Davis

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning

Eyes, Moment, While

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
Dean Kamen

Sometimes, Private, Crash

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.
Sarah Palin

Building, Ground, Zero

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

Time, School, Fire

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Fire, Nation, Anybody

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
David Suzuki

Negative, Energy, Problems

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
David Suzuki

Truth, Real, Global

I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.
Miranda Lambert

Job, Definitely

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Ken Kesey

History, Else, Destroy

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
John Dryden

Words, Deeper, Brief

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
Jesse Jackson

Life, Stars, Bright

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
Nigella Lawson

Through, Read, Head

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Two, Pretty

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell

Life, Learn, Bridge

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Love, Family

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Jean Racine

Love, Fire, Everything

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
Payne Stewart

Live, Person, Country

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
Adam Carolla

Happen, Trying, Masculine

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