Fulke Greville Quotes

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

Everyone is a master and servant.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

Fire is our first form of technology.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire.

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.

Of the over 100,000 wildfires that happen in the U.S. each year, not a single one would get started without the fire triangle: Oxygen, heat and fuel. Fire needs all three to exist. It's like the three branches of our government: Legislative, judicial and executive. The fewer there are, the safer we are.

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.