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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Fire |
| Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke. Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. L. 3,881. | 1 |
| Words pregnant with celestial fire. Cowper—Boadicea. 33. | 2 |
| E’en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E’en in our ashes live their wonted fires. Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 23. Gray says it was suggested by Petrarch—Sonnet. 169. Same phrase in Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2. | 3 |
| Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire. Gray—Elegy. 46. | 4 |
| A crooked log makes a straight fire. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum. | 5 |
| Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum. | 6 |
| Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet. Your own property is concerned when your neighbor’s house is on fire. Horace—Epistles. I. 18. 84. | 7 |
| The burnt child dreads the fire. Ben Jonson—The Devil is an Ass. Act I. Sc. 2. | 8 |
| How great a matter a little fire kindleth! James. III. 5. | 9 |
| Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. Latimer—The Martyrdom. P. 523. | 10 |
| There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. Lyly—Euphues and his Emphœbus. P. 153. (Arber’s Reprint.) | 11 |
| All the fatt’s in the fire. Marston—What You Will. 1607. | 12 |
| Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 77. | 13 |
| They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. Thomas More—Dial. Bk. II. Ch. I. Folio LXIII. b. | 14 |
| Dare pondus idonea fumo. Fit to give weight to smoke. Persius—Satires. V. 20. | 15 |
| Out of the frying pan into the fire. Idea in Plato—De Repub. VIII. P. 569. B. Theodoret—Therap. III. 773. | 16 |
| Flamma fumo est proxima. Flame is very near to smoke. Plautus—Curculio. Act I. 1. 53. | 17 |
| Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire. Pope—Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation. | 18 |
| Heap coals of fire upon his head. Proverbs. XXV. 22. | 19 |
| Parva sæpe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. Quintus Curtius Rufus—De Rebus Gestis Alexandria Magni. VI. 3. 11. | 20 |
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| A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being sufter’d, rivers cannot quench. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 6. | 21 |
| The fire i’ the flint Shows not till it be struck. Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 22. | 22 |
| Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 30. | 23 |
| In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live. Sir Philip Sidney—Arcadia. | 24 |
| O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live. Wordsworth—Ode. IV. 53. (Knight’s ed.) | 25 |
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