| "I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes." »Abigail Van Buren |
| "If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere" »Marilyn Monroe |
| "The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." »Franois Auguste Ren Rodin |
| "It is not observed in history that families improve with time." »George William Curtis |
| "Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." »Marnie Reed Crowell |
| "Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author" »Philip G. Hamerton |
| "On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard." »Lloyd Garrison |
| "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." »Francis Bacon |
| "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely |
| "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann |
| "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they" »George Carlin |
| "It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue." »Confucius |
| "Out of the frying pan into the fire." »Quintus Septimius Tertullianus |
| "Time is the fire in which we burn." »Gene Roddenberry |
| "Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished." »Luisa Sigea |
| "If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it." »Danish proverb |
| "Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." »Thomas Fuller |
| "Love is friendship caught on fire." »Unknown |
| "Love is friendship set on fire." »Jeremy Taylor |
| "Love in its essence is spiritual fire." »Swedenborg |
| "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses." »Edith Sodergran |
| "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." »William Butler Yeats |
| "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." »William Butler Yeats |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
