Red Imported Fire

Famous quotes containing the words red, imported and/or fire:

    “O My Luve’s like a red, red rose,
    That’s newly sprung in June;
    O My Luve’s like the melodie
    That’s sweetly played in tune.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
    But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)