Fire Quotes - Page 40

• True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

  Walter Scott

  True Love, Men, Heaven

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.345

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• I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Poetry, Forgiving, Obscurity

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.316, OUP Oxford

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• Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• [In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Real, Land, Air

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• I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Religious, Art

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.519, Cambridge University Press

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• We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sunset, Water, Dawn

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• So slowly the hot elephant hearts
  grow full of desire,
  and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
  hiding their fire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Elephants, Secret

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Forever, Height

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• There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Anger, Earth

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• Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Fun, Way, Management

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• On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Queens, Males

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• Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Flare Up, Wind, Littles

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• The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Bystanders, House

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.23

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• Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Friendship, Appreciation, Heart

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
  But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
  Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hot, Rage

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and essay on his genius by Barry Cornwall: also annotations and remarks by many writers, illustr. with engr. from designs by K. Meadows”

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• The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

  Richard Whately

  Kings, Lying, Gun

  Richard Whately (1860). “Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences”, p.38

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• Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

  Richard Whately

  Reason, Inference, Draws

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• From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Strong, Eye, Use

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• Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Passion, Water, Purpose

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• Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Profound

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• If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Hands, Opposites

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you live on Cold Mountain long enough the autumns pass quickly When you live alone you have no worries When you leave the doors open no one bothers you The bubbling stream runs forever In the cave a clay pot boils over a fire on the ground A wandering breeze stirs the fragrant pines When hungry I eat one simple meal And lean against the rock in complete harmony

  Hanshan

  Running, Autumn, Simple

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• Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Sleep, Men, Mirrors

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• there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

  Christine de Pizan

  Smoke

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• Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

  Sallust

  Moving, Air, Water

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