Burns Quotes
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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More Burns Quotes
Fire that's closest kept Burns most of all.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act I, scene 2, line 30.
When the stress Burns my brain just like acid raindrops, Mary Jane is the only thing that makes the pain stop.
— People Under the Stairs, "Acid Raindrops".
The capon Burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act I, scene 2, line 44.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burns
Edmund Burke— 1796 Two Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory, 9th edn.
John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. Burns
Robert Burns— 1790 'John Anderson my Jo', stanza1. 1788 'Auld Lang Syne', stanza1. This is the most familiar version of an older, traditional song, reworked by Burns.
Gracie Allen and George Burns (themselves)
— "Together again."
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man; Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Blot out my name , that the spirits of Shakespeare and Milton and Burns Look not down on the praises of fools with a pity my soul yet spurns.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, using the pseudonym "Owen Meredith", in "Last Words" published in Cornhill Magazine (November 1860), p. 516
My candle Burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends. It gives a lovely light.
edna st. vincent millay— A Few Figs From Thistles, 'First Fig' (1920)
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, Burns and destroysmy property, and kills or threatenstokill me or those that are in it, and to'bind me in all cases whatsoever'to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?
thomas paine— 1776 The Crisis, introduction, Dec.
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette Burns to prove it.
henry fonda— This 'n that? (1987) by Bette Davis and Mickey Herskowitz. Putnam's. p. 98. ISBN 0399132465.
When I calmly consider this, the flame of anxiety Burns my body. Towards the public, I am deeply ashamed of my lack of discretion... I would like to apologise to successive emperors and people by doing my best for reconstruction of the nation and people's happiness.
Hirohito— Draft of undelivered speech (1948); published in the magazine Bungeishunju as quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald (11 June 2003)
Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) Burns.
l. ron hubbard— All About Radiation (1952) p. 109
Dancing with the wind: the fire Burns, the water drowns.
travis meeks— Dancing with the wind (Red - 2003)
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;What Burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.
theodore roethke— "The Marrow," ll. 11-12
"Nothing Burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?
frederick franck— p. 120 (Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985))
I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which Burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which Burns within me God!
Nikos Kazantzakis— Odysseus, Book XI, line 840
Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom Burns!
Michael Moore— A phrase used in some advertisements, it is wordplay based on the title of Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 about a totalitarian state, and the assertion made within it that 451° Fahrenheit was "The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns."
And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it Burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.
joanna newsom— Sadie
Here Burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 6, line 1.
My candle Burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends It gives a lovely light.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920).
One fire Burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act I, scene 2, line 46.
And I saw the wild beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the one seated on the horse and against his army . 20 And the wild beast was caught, and along with it the false prophet that performed in front of it the signs with which he misled those who received the mark of the wild beast and those who worship its image. While still alive, they both were hurled into the fiery lake that Burns with sulfur.
— 19:19-20
— Note: Those with the mark of the beast place themselves in opposition to God.
— Source
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It Burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
— The Bible, Song of Songs 8:6.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt , so that the mind may never rest in the sure knowledge of the truth , unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire Burns, his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
— Cited in: Carol A. Dingle (2000) Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization. p. 21
'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' his bow, And Burns for love and money too.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III (1678), Canto I, line 1. Churchill, The Ghost, Book IV.
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Of bushes low, as when, on cloudy days, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer Burns his brush.
james russell lowell— An Indian-Summer Reverie, Stanza 11, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922, p. 45)
[ Homer 's] Fire Burns with extraordinary Heat and Vehemence ... Virgil's is a clearer and a chaster Flame ...
— Richard Blackmore, Preface to King Arthur (1697).
