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Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire. - Alexander Pope, Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation There's no smoke without fire. [Lat., Non est fumus absque igne.] - Proverb, (Latin) Where there's smoke, there's fire. - Proverb, (American) A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus), De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VI, 3, 11) And where two raging fires meet together They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. - William Shakespeare A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clarence at IV, viii) The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself and like the current flies Each bound it chafes. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Poet at I, i) Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta at I, ii) In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney), Arcadia Fire is the most tolerable third party. - Henry David Thoreau When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn. - John Wesley We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. - Tennessee Williams O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live. - William Wordsworth, Ode (IV, 53), (Knight's edition) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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