Logo
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wi

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Fire
category

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. – Robert Herrick

Category:
Fire

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. – Charles Dudley Warner

Category:
Fire

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. – Otto Weininger

Category:
Fire

Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out. – Henry Jackson Vandyke,Jr.

Category:
Fire

Random Quotes

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child. – Kerry Healey

Category:
teacher

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then. – Carter Burwell

Category:
movies

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. – James Madison

Category:
Happiness

Earth and rain—dust and desire—what mingled odor of these is not sweet? – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

Category:
Weather