Lost Axle

A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Emanuel Swedenborg

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost. - Confucius

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. - Italian Proverb

All our words from loose using have lost their edge. - Ernest Hemingway

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. - Joe Biden

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune. - Napoleon

Many friends have been lost by jest, but few have been gained. - Unknown

By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. - Unknown

It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all. - Groucho Marx

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

When my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to claim it. - Carole King

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. - Helen Keller

No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips. - Vance Havner

We feel free when we escape - even when it be from the frying pan into the fire. - Eric Hoffer

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth. - Samuel Johnson

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. - Laurence J. Peter

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire, women will like him. - Mae West

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. - WC Fields

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. - Unknown

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own. - Shannon L. Alder

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? - Unknown

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. - Frances Rodman

Can we be casual in the work of God—casual when the house is on fire, and people in danger of being burned? - Duncan Campbell

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. - Lord Byron

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

There was a fire at the main Inland Revenue office in London today, but it was put out before any serious good was done. - Ronnie Corbett

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

I have a microwave fireplace in my house... The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes. - Steven Wright

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder

A lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

I've missed more than 9,000 shots. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin