Famous quotes containing the words set fire, set and/or fire:
“One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (19211990)
“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is ... the labour of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”
—Bernard Mandeville (16701733)
“... Aint it a caution to us not to fix
No limits to what rose in rubbing sticks
On fire to scare away the pterodix
When man first lived in caves along the creeks?
Marvelous world in nineteen-twenty-six.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)