Fire Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

35 Fire Quotes
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“When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.”
Irish Sayings Quotes
“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
Martha Graham Quotes
“Fire is never a gentle master”
Proverb Quotes
“Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight”
African Proverb Quotes
“Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.”
Bhagavad Gita Quotes
“Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!”
Joseph Kallinger Quotes
“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.”
Otto Weininger Quotes
“Fire is the most tolerable third party”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.”
Bible Quotes
“We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers.”
Lou Angeli Quotes
“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”
Bible Quotes
Source: James (ch. III, v. 5-6)
“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 21-22)
“Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 3,881), The Reeve's Tale
“Words pregnant with celestial fire.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Boadicea (33)
“Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Elegy (46)
“E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 23), Gray says it was suggested by Plutarch
“A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.]”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Epistles (I, 18, 84)
“The burnt child dreads the fire.”
Ben Jonson Quotes
Source: The Devil is an Ass (act I, sc. 2)
“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”
Hugh Latimer Quotes
Source: The Martyrdom (p. 523)
“There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes
Source: Euphes and his Emphoebus (p. 153), (Arber's Reprint)
“All the fatt's in the fire.”
John Marston Quotes
Source: What You Will (1607)
“Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 77)
“They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.”
Sir Thomas More Quotes
Source: Dial (bk. II, ch. I, folio LXIII, b)