Flames

Famous quotes containing the word flames:

“Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?”
—William James (1842–1910)

“I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;
Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The more people gathering firewood, the higher the flames will grow.”
—Chinese proverb.