Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or thawing:
“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)
“What is man but a mass of thawing clay?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)