Famous quotes containing the word flames:
“Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Lust gratifies its flames in the chambers of the sacristans more often than in the houses of ill-fame.”
—Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)
“Whatever flames upon the night
Mans own resinous heart has fed.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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