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.
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)
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.
I fear dying in here, while my city Burns, and there's no one there to save it.
Bruce Wayne— The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Christian Bale
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
The wrath of God Burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
jonathan edwards— Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, sermon delivered in Enfield, Connecticut (July 8, 1741)
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
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.
roger bacon— Cited in: Carol A. Dingle (2000) Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization. p. 21
Love in your hearts as idly Burns As fire in antique Roman urns.
— Canto I, line 309.
"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
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire Burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
tennessee williams— Christopher
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he Burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Boris Yeltsin— Statement to a TImes reporter in 1990, as quoted in "The wit and wisdom of Boris" in Guardian Unlimited (23 April 2007)
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.
In seeking tales and informations Against this man, whose honesty the devil And his disciples only envy at, Ye blew the fire that Burns ye.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act V, scene 3, line 110.
Hate is like fire; it Burns those who hold it.
— Alden Loveshade, Same River Twice (1999).
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
Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell, How it Burns on the edge of tempestuous years The horrible Light-House of Hell!
mcdonald clarke— The Rum Hole.
[W]e were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be imprisoned if hope Burns in your heart. [...] You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
— Barack Obama, Yangon University Speech, Remarks by President Obama at the University of Yangon, Rangoon, Burma, (19 November 2012)
'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)
Let you sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fever Burns away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal , guilty , but to me The entirely beautiful .
— W. H. Auden, in A Book of Love Poetry, p.155
