(4102 quotes found)
“Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
“Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”
George Orwell
“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
Marge Piercy
“We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.”
Chanakya
“Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.”
William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.”
