Fire Destroyed

Add not fire to fire. - Greek proverb

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. - Dalai Lama

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. - Edith Sodergran

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

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition. - Mark Twain

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

Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people. - Kathy Austin

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection. - Aristotle

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. - Ernest Hemingway

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. - Kenneth Clark

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. - Nelson Mandela

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

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 '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

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. - Brian Mulroney

In France we leave unmolested those who set fire to the house, and persecute those who sound the alarm. - Sebastien Chamfort

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

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

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. - Dolly Parton

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey

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

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

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours. - Lady Hasluck

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas

Whenever you are embarrassed, just remember that in 1999 NASA destroyed a $655 Million project because the engineers mistook kilograms and pounds. - Unknown

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