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Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. - Bible, James (ch. III, v. 5-6) If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 21-22) The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. - Jimmy Breslin Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 3,881), The Reeve's Tale Words pregnant with celestial fire. - William Cowper, Boadicea (33) Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire. - Thomas Gray, Elegy (46) E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. - Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 23), Gray says it was suggested by Plutarch We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire. - Heraclitus of Ephesus From small fires comes oft no small mishap. - George Herbert A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. - Robert Herrick Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 18, 84) The most tangible of all visible mysteries--fire. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) 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 burnt child dreads the fire. - Ben Jonson, The Devil is an Ass (act I, sc. 2) Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. - Hugh Latimer, The Martyrdom (p. 523) There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Euphes and his Emphoebus (p. 153), (Arber's Reprint) All the fatt's in the fire. - John Marston, What You Will (1607) Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 77) They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. [They leap like a flounder out of a frying pan into the fire.] - Sir Thomas More, Dial (bk. II, ch. I, folio LXIII, b) What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires (V, 20) Out of the frying pan into the fire. - Idea in Plato (originally Aristocles}, De Repub. (VIII, p. 569, B) Flame is very near to smoke. [Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Curculio (act I, 1, 53) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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