Quotes About Fire

My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.

As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame.

Mr. Alden and Henry decided to take turns putting wood on the fire during the night. There was plenty of wood. They all lay down in a row. Benny was on one side of Grandfather, and Violet was on the other.

I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.

Amami, per Dio. Ho bisogno d'amore, amore, amore, fuoco, entusiasmo, vita

There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

Against a heart inflamed with love, burning with unquenchable fire, a ruthless tyrant, cruelly armed, wages war, but all in vain. From every attack a victor, Love will always triumph. - Rosina

Thirdly, it will be propounded that every star hath motion even as hath our own and those others which are so near to us that we can sensibly perceive the differences in their orbits and in their motions: but those suns, bodies in which fire doth predominate, move differently to the earths in which water predominateth; thus may be understood whence is derived the light diffused by stars, of which some glow of themselves and others by reflection.

Why didn't Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego burn? It certainly wasn't because the fire had no power. It had power all right. It had enough power to kill the mighty men in the king's army who threw them into it. It just had no power over the bodies of God's men.

The dry tinder of inequality was everywhere, just waiting to be set on fire.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter... It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

Our passions are true phœnixes: as the old burn out, the new straight rise up out of the ashes.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil — to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them... Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one — through their excess.

Fire and pride cannot be hid.

Fire is love and water sorrow.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

Don't let your dreams go up in smoke — practice fire safety.

Where love begins, there dread thy first desire; A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Practice fire safety — watch what you heat.