Write thy wrongs in ashes. [ Sir T. Browne ]
You scatter meal and gather ashes. [ Proverb ]
Oh, no! My heart can never be
Again in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame. [ Miss Landon ]
I shall show the cinders of my spirits
Through the ashes of my chance. [ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2 ]
Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earth! [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [ Martial ]
Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame. [ Spenser ]
Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Forsaken ]
Divine ashes are better than earthly meal. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Lay on more wood, the ashes will yield money. [ Proverb ]
Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. [ Gray ]
The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Under white ashes there often lurk glowing embers. [ Danish Proverb ]
Rejoice, Shrovetide today, for tomorrow you'll be ashes. [ Proverb ]
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. [ Landor ]
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. [ Burial Service ]
The temple of fame stands upon the grave; the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men. [ Hazlitt ]
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. [ Horace ]
It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. [ Seneca ]
True passion is not a wisp-light; it is a consuming flame, and either it must find fruition or it will burn the human heart to dust and ashes. [ William Winter ]
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had his Pompeii? Deep under ashes lie life, youth, the careless sports, the pleasures and passions, the darling joy. [ William M. Thackeray ]
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]