Blowing Out The Fire

An oak is not felled at one blow. - Spanish Proverb

Content is fire and social media is gasoline. - Jay Baer

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. - Robert Frost

Blowing your own horn only makes other people go deaf. - Unknown

If someone's lying, are their pants really on fire? - Jerry Seinfeld

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. - Cormac McCarthy

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. - Geraldo Rivera

Let the wind blow through your hair while you still have some. - Dave Weinbaum

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. - Marshall McLuhan

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

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match. - Unknown

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. - Eskimo Proverb

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. - Thomas Fuller

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. - Ethel Merman

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare

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

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H Glasow

I took a physical for some life insurance. All they would give me was fire and theft. - Milton Berle

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. - Bob Hope

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow. - To Have and Have Not

Life, if you're fat, is a minefield - you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up. - Miriam Margolyes

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof! - Archie Bunker

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

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

The fire of the diamond of true identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. - Kenneth G Mills

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

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare

There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze,
And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees. - Ogden Nash

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

You have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Rev. Theodore Hesburgh

At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. - Erica Jong

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell