top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Standard
Customized
More
"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Chance
"Character is simply habit long continued."
Character
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
Poor
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
Change
"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."
Fate
"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
Friendship
"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
Glory
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
Adversity
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
God
"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
Man
bottom of page