Fire Dogs

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or dogs:

“The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, “This is God’s hat.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When dogs no longer eat excrement, then human beings will no longer practice favoritism.”
—Chinese proverb.