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"You can not write in the chimney with charcoal." »Assyrian Proverb
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney." »James Burke
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"Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents, For he that knows thy purpose best prevents." »Randolph
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"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy." »Homer
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"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue." »Sallust, The War with Catiline
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"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee." »Phyllis Diller
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." »George Washington
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"Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue." »Sallust
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"Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." »George Washington
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1
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"Whoever has the seed of virtue and honour implanted in his breast will drop a sympathising tear on the woes of his neighbour." »Nakhshabi
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"If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming." »Metastasio
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"For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breathe, And love itself have rest" »Lord Byron
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"For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest." »Lord Byron
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"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast." »William Congreve
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"I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed, Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed, The rich return of fame and friends procure, And ?gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure." »Pindar
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