Fire Quotes

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

Love, Down, Tell

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

Religion, Politics, Making

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Richard Bach

Lives, Perfection, Within

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor

Off, Getting, Drink

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot

Living, Dead, Language

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

Gossip, Tongue, Slow

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

Woman, Put, Days

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Jealousy, Passion, Needs

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Said, Guilty

There is in every 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

Heart, Woman, Dark

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke

Play, Cannot, House

Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor

Love, Friendship

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Truth, Him

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller

Away, Taking, Fuel

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Life, Love, Hope

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.
William Hazlitt

Beauty, Health, Person

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Ted Nugent

Life, Attitude, Rock

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
Joan Rivers

Work, Care, Book

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
Robert W. Service

Book, Friends, Honest

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
George W. Bush

Action, Hit, Empty

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry Miller

Nothing, Passion, Honest

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Thomas Merton

Rich, Honest, Cosmic

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Girl, Sorry

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
Donald Trump

Yes, Task, Fired

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Heart, Woman

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin

Why, Put, Mouth

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats

Nature, Human, Wonder

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

Woman, Put, Wanted

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Henry Van Dyke

Courage, Talent, Genius

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon

Good, May, Again

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