Famous quotes containing the words fire, emblem and/or series:
“The sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkins cheek,
Dashes the fire out.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Galileo, with an operaglass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than anyone since.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)