match quotes

My theory iswe don't really go that far into other people, even when we think we do.We hardly ever go in and bring them out.We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody's there.

- Martin Louis Amis
  Money.

The phonographs of hades in the brain Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love A burnt match skating in a urinal.

- (Harold) Hart Crane
  The Bridge,'The Tunnel'.

I look forward to†a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint; its wealth with our wisdom; its power with our purpose.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
  Last major public speech,  Amherst College, 26 Oct.

Each diploma is a lighted match† Each one of you is a fuse.

- Edward I(rving) Koch
   Addressing students at NY State University. In the New York Times,10  Jun.

L'honneur, c'est comme les allumettes:  c° a ne sert qu'une fois. Honour is like a match, you can use it only once.

- Marcel Pagnol
  Marius, act 4, sc.5.

We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.