Ovid Quotes

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

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.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

Fire is our first form of technology.

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

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

I fought fire with oil.

Fame, you know, it's like a handgun - in the wrong hands, it's dangerous.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

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.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.