Quenched

Famous quotes containing the word quenched:

    “My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
    Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
    All felled, felled, are all felled;”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.”
    —Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)

    “Only if loves fire with the breath
    Of life be kindled, I doubt,
    With our last air ‘twill be breath’d out,
    And quenched with the cold of death.”
    —Edward Herbert (1583–1648)