Thomas Overbury Quotes

Flame is very near to smoke.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

... common sense is very rare.

I always try to have an open mind, but there is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in the head.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

An open mind but not an empty head.

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

Fir : it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

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

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.