Famous quotes containing the words set and/or fire:
“One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)