Flame Hardening

Famous quotes containing the words flame and/or hardening:

    If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
    At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
    Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
    James Thurber (1894–1961)