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If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned

-Bam Bam Bigelow

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I have fought fire with fire ... and I ought to have done it sooner!
- Gregory Maguire on "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"

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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Out of a fired ship, which by no way

But drowning could be rescued from the flame,

Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came

Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;

So all were lost, which in the ship were found,

They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

By Emily Dickinson

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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

-Thomas Fuller

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“Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart’s desire.”
- Leon Brown

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That fearful sound of “fire” and “fire,”
Let no man know is my Desire.
I, starting up, the light did spy,
And to my God my heart did cry
To straighten me in my Distress
And not to leave me succourless …

ANNE BRADSTREET

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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha)

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“For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed.”
- City of God

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Dont start a fire
you can't quench

- William H.

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The Other Two, Slight Air And Purging Fire Poem

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The Other Two, Slight Air And Purging Fire Poem

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The other two, slight air and purging fire,
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recured
By those swift messengers returned from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assured
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me.
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again and straight grow sad.
William Shakespeare

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Time is the fire in which we burn.
- Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day (poem)

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

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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold? …
EDMUND SPENSER

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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
- Robert Herrick (1852)

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If you fight fire with fire, you may end up with ashes
- E. Carter

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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, Hamlet act 2, scene 2

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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
-Ferdinand Foch

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“Love is the only candle whose flame is eternally lit.”

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Out of a fired ship, which by no way

But drowning could be rescued from the flame,

Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came

Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;

So all were lost, which in the ship were found,

They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

By John Donne

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens.

-Oscar Wilde 1890, the Picture of Dorian Gray

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet. June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939
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