Forces Opened Fire

Famous quotes containing the words forces, opened and/or fire:

“Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)

“It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)