Fire Quotes

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Wicked ones are like fire. Even if put on a heap, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt, even their well-wishers and benefactors.

A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.

There is no enemy like infatuation and fire like wrath.

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

Heads are regarded as explosive materials, only to be safely kept in damp places, as far as possible from the peculiar sort of fire which ignites them.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice