(13 quotes found)
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman”
Victor Hugo
“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
William Penn
“The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them”
Thomas Jefferson
“Live life with a fire that is never extinguished.”
Author unknown
“Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it”
Charles Lamb
“Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes”
Hannah Moore
“Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return”
Seneca
“We are proud of our team members who, in a prompt and efficient manner, extinguished the smoke.”
Kathy Shepard
“The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away,”
Simon Phipps
