Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. [ Cymb ]

The sooty oven mocks the black chimney. [ Proverb ]

Silks and satins put out the fire in the chimney. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A smoking chimney in a great house is a good sign. [ Proverb ]

He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a moment! [ Longfellow ]

Where you think there is bacon there is no chimney. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is not always good cheer where the chimney smokes. [ Proverb ]

He comes to you with a tale which holds children from play and old men from the chimney-corner. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV. Sc.1 ]

Your invitation honors me, and pleases me because you still keep me in your remembrance, but I am seventy; seventy, and would nestle in the chimney-corner, and smoke my pipe, and read my book, and take my rest, wishing you well in all affection; and that when you in your return shall arrive at pier No. 70 you may step aboard your waiting ship with a reconciled spirit, and lay your course toward the sinking sun with a contented heart. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]