Definition of fire

"fire" in the noun sense

1. fire

the event of something burning (often destructive

"they lost everything in the fire"

2. fire, firing

the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

"hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"

"they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

3. fire, flame, flaming

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

"fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

4. fire

a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning

"they sat by the fire and talked"

5. fire

once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

6. ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness

feelings of great warmth and intensity

"he spoke with great ardor"

7. fire

fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking

"put the kettle on the fire"

"barbecue over an open fire"

8. fire

a severe trial

"he went through fire and damnation"

9. fire, attack, flak, flack, blast

intense adverse criticism

"Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"

"the government has come under attack"

"don't give me any flak"

"fire" in the verb sense

1. open fire, fire

start firing a weapon

2. fire, discharge

cause to go off

"fire a gun"

"fire a bullet"

3. fire

bake in a kiln so as to harden

"fire pottery"

4. displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate

terminate the employment of discharge from an office or position

"The boss fired his secretary today"

"The company terminated 25% of its workers"

5. fire, discharge, go off

go off or discharge

"The gun fired"

6. fire

drive out or away by or as if by fire

"The soldiers were fired"

"Surrender fires the cold skepticism"

7. arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses

"arouse pity"

"raise a smile"

"evoke sympathy"

8. burn, fire, burn down

destroy by fire

"They burned the house and his diaries"

9. fuel, fire

provide with fuel

"Oil fires the furnace"

10. fire

generate an electrical impulse

"the neurons fired fast"

11. fire, flame up

become ignited

"The furnace wouldn't fire"

12. fire, light, ignite

start or maintain a fire in

"fire the furnace"

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Quotations for fire

Fire from fire.

The fat is in the fire. [ Heywood ]

Fire in flax will smoke. [ Proverb ]

No smoke without some fire. [ Proverb ]

Soft fire makes sweet malt. [ Proverb ]

Likely tumbles in the fire,
When unlikely rises higher. [ Proverb ]

It was got out of the fire. [ Proverb ]

Foul water will quench fire. [ Proverb ]

The fire in the flint
Shows not till it be struck. [ William Shakespeare ]

Green wood makes a hot fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A slow fire makes sweet malt. [ Proverb ]

Fire maks an auld wife nimble. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt, I love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Is not light grander than fire? [ Carlyle ]

Ships fear fire more than water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The burnt child dreads the fire. [ Ben Jonson ]

When I could not sleep for cold,
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain! [ Lowell ]

A crooked log makes a good fire. [ French Proverb ]

Fire is not extinguished by fire. [ Italian Proverb ]

Water afar off quencheth not fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward. [ Zoroaster ]

Wine and youth are fire upon fire. [ Fielding ]

Two removals are as bad as a fire. [ Proverb ]

Heat cannot be separated from fire,
Or beauty from the eternal. [ Dante ]

It is a sad choice, frying or fire. [ Proverb ]

Let him that is cold blow the fire. [ Proverb ]

Fire drives out fire; so pity, pity. [ William Shakespeare ]

A crooked log makes a straight fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Out of the frying-pan into the fire. [ Proverb ]

Yonder cloud,
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a laboring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire. [ Tennyson ]

Suppose a neighbour should desire
To light a candle at your fire,
Would it deprive your flame of light
Because another profits by it. [ Lloyd ]

Thou living ray of intellectual fire. [ Falconer ]

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. [ Herrick ]

The blushing cheek speaks modest mind.
The lips befitting words most kind,
The eye does tempt to love's desire,
And seems to say 'tis Cupid's fire. [ Harrington ]

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. [ Beaconsfield ]

In the coldest flint there is hot fire. [ Proverb ]

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. [ Franklin ]

Water afar won't quench a fire at hand. [ Italian Proverb ]

Take away fuel, and you take away fire. [ Proverb ]

True valour is fire, bullying is smoke. [ Proverb ]

Oh, if there is one thing above the rest
Written in Wisdom - if there is a word
That I would trace as with a pen of fire
Upon the unsullied temper of a child —
If there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits, and repels
The ministry of ill - It is Love. [ N. P. Willis ]

Well may he smell fire whose gown burns. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fanaticism, soberly defined,
Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind. [ William Cowper ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. [ Cervantes ]

Silk doth quench the fire in the kitchen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire. [ Proverb ]

To play at chess when the house is on fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

From little spark may burst a mighty flame. [ Dante ]

Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire. [ Proverb ]

The best fire doesn't flare up the soonest. [ George Eliot ]

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire,
As summer clouds flash forth electric fire. [ Rogers ]

From small fires comes oft no small mishap. [ George Herbert ]

That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Will any hang a wooden kettle over the fire? [ Proverb ]

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. [ German Proverb ]

Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Base terms are bellows to a slackening fire. [ Proverb ]

Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. [ Milton ]

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]

The fire that all things else consumeth clean
May hurt and heal. [ Sir Thomas Wyatt ]

Love is a spirit all compact of fire;
Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire. [ Shakespeare ]

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. [ Proverb ]

A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 7 ]

Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need. [ Danish Proverb ]

If by fire of sooty coal the empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
Metals of drossest ore to perfect gold. [ Milton ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

It is a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that can make a fire well can end a quarrel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To go through fire and water to serve a friend. [ Proverb ]

Fire, quoth the fox, when he pissed on the ice. [ Proverb ]

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire. [ Ouida ]

And where two raging fires meet together
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. [ William Shakespeare ]

The eastern hanging crescent climbeth higher;
See, purple on the azure softly steals.
And Morning, faintly touched with quivering fire
Leans on the frosty summits of the hills,
Like a young girl over her hoary sire. [ Roscoe ]

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! [ Carlyle ]

When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. [ Thomas Campbell ]

Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth. [ St. James ]

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. [ William Shakespeare ]

A fire, if neglected, always gathers in strength. [ Horace ]

The wind that blows out candles kindles the fire. [ Proverb ]

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

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. [ Proverb ]

The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. [ Proverb ]

You carry fire in one hand and water in the other. [ Proverb ]

Who walks through fire will hardly heed the smoke. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Had doting Priam checked his son's desire,
Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

Working and making a fire doth discretion require. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love's fire, if it once go out, is hard to kindle. [ Proverb ]

If you have many irons in the fire, some will burn. [ Proverb ]

He has an even hand to throw a louse into the fire. [ Proverb ]

To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history.
In which we feel the pressure of a hand,
One touch of fire - and all the rest is mystery! [ Longfellow ]

The soul of a choleric man is ever by the fire-side. [ Proverb ]

Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigour from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. [ Byron ]

As fire is kindled by bellows, so is anger by words. [ Proverb ]

To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench it. [ Proverb ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

A good man will as soon run into a fire as a quarrel. [ Proverb ]

The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. [ Proverb ]

Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]

Against the wild-fire of the mob there is no defense. [ Proverb ]

Little sticks kindle the fire, great ones put it out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He touches it as warily as a cat does a coal of fire. [ Proverb ]

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb. [ Byron ]

Set not your house on fire to be revenged of the moon. [ Proverb ]

Lord, shall we grumble, when thy flames do scourge us?
Our sins breathe fire; that fire returns to purge us.
Lord, what an alchemist art thou, whose skill
Transmutes to perfect good from perfect ill! [ Francis Quarles ]

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. [ E. B. Browning ]

Fire and water are not more necessary than friends are. [ Proverb ]

Little sticks kindle a fire, but great ones put it out. [ Proverb ]

You are like fig-tree fuel, much smoke and little fire. [ Proverb ]

To cast oil into the fire, is not the way to quench it. [ Proverb ]

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly. [ George Eliot ]

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game. [ Lamb ]

Ware shins, quoth Grub, when he flung a louse in the fire. [ Proverb ]

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. [ Amiel ]

The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fire-side. [ Proverb ]

When a mans house is on fire it is time to break off chess. [ Proverb ]

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. [ Lyly ]

A little wind kindles a great fire, a great one blows it out. [ Proverb ]

Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us. [ Proverb ]

A gentleman's greyhound and a salt box, seek them at the fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Money will make the pot boil, though the devil is in the fire. [ Proverb ]

Through water and fire she goes plunging but is not submerged. [ M. of Paris ]

Put your finger into the fire, and say it was your ill fortune. [ Proverb ]

Charity resembleth fire, which inflameth all things it toucheth. [ Erasmus ]

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. [ Bolingbroke ]

That fire which lights us at a distance, will burn us when near. [ Proverb ]

When the heart is a fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth. [ Proverb ]

Where there is smoke there is fire (flame is very close to smoke). [ Plaut ]

That fire that does not warm me, I will never permit to scorch me. [ Proverb ]

The smoke of one's own house is better than the fire at another's. [ Proverb ]

When the house of your neighbour is on fire, your own is in danger. [ Proverb ]

Our spit is not yet at the fire, and you are got a basting already. [ Proverb ]

When the next house is on fire, it is high time to look to your own. [ Proverb ]

The passions are like fire and water; good servants, but bad masters. [ Proverb ]

If you light the fire at both ends, the middle will shift for itself. [ Proverb ]

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [ Horace ]

He that makes a fire of straw hath much smoke, and but little warmth. [ Proverb ]

It is as natural a thing for means to cure, as it is for fire to burn. [ Proverb ]

In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them. [ Balzac ]

Oh for a muse of fire that would ascend the highest heaven of invention! [ William Shakespeare ]

To give a reason for fancy, were to weigh the fire and measure the wind. [ Proverb ]

Art is a gift of Heaven, yet does it borrow its fire from earthly passion. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

I had rather ask of my fire brown bread than borrow of my neighbour white. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

His eyebrow dark, and eye of fire, showed spirit proud, and prompt to ire. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

O love! only a few rays of thy sacred fire radiate in this exhausted world! [ Voltaire ]

Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. [ Warburton ]

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. [ Spenser ]

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

The poor man's penny unjustly detained, is a coal of fire in a rich man's purse. [ Proverb ]

When the husband is fire, and the wife tow, the devil easily sets all in a flame. [ Proverb ]

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler. [ Steele ]

You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out We know not who lives or dies. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. [ Jesus ]

Heaven has refused genius to woman, in order to concentrate all the fire in her heart. [ Rivarol ]

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]

Affection is a coal that must be cooled: Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

In condemning the vanity of women, men complain of the fire they themselves have kindled. [ Lingrie ]

What is this little, agile, precious fire, this fluttering motion which we call the mind? [ Prior ]

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called Conscience. [ George Washington ]

When I am dead, may earth be mingled with fire! Ay, said Nero, and while I am living, too. [ From a Greek Tragedian ]

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [ Ovid ]

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

Romances, in general, are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. [ Richardson ]

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. [ Johnsoniana ]

Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance. [ Xenophon ]

To talk in a tête-à-tête of the mysteries of love, is to play with fire on a barrel of gunpowder. [ Levis ]

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [ Bible ]

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. [ Bovee ]

My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. [ Quarles ]

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. [ Carlyle ]

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. [ William Penn ]

'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. [ W. Irving ]

Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire. [ La Roche ]

It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell. [ Cicero ]

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other. [ Addison ]

Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. [ William Shakespeare ]

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad roasters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. [ L'Estrange ]

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire. [ Colton ]

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]

Every man turns his dreams into realities as far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. [ Ovid ]

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. [ Mazzini ]

It is an impudent kind of sorcery to attempt to blind us with the smoke without convincing us that the fire has existed. [ Junius ]

The old proverb about having too many irons in the fire is an abominable old lie. Have all in, shovel, tongs, and poker. [ Adam Clarke ]

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. [ Tupper ]

Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire, - not too near, lest he burn: nor too far off, lest he freeze. [ Diogenes ]

Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire. [ Acton ]

We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. [ Colton ]

Love is not a fire which can be confined within the breast; everything betrays it; and its fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the more. [ Racine ]

The one advantage of playing with fire is that one never even gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it that get burned up. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling. [ Carlyle ]

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. [ Latimer ]

If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road. [ Thoreau ]

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. [ Joubert ]

The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant. [ Sataka ]

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. [ Theodore Parker ]

The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the elevation of his position. [ Helvetius ]

Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Their avenging God! rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god. [ A. de Musset ]

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. [ Ouida ]

Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter. [ Hartley Coleridge ]

Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.' [ Willmott ]

How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]

All the means of action, the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius! [ Longfellow ]

When a woman's heart is touched, when it is moved by love, then the electric spark is communicated and the fire of inspiration kindled: but even then she desires no more than to suffer or to die for what she loves. [ Countess Hahn-Hahn ]

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. [ Charron ]

Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. [ Carlyle ]

What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take: and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. [ Quarles ]

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. [ Colton ]

Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip manure. [ Carlyle ]

At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]

Intellect alone, however exalted, without strong feelings - without even, irritable sensibility - would be only like an immense magazine of powder, if there were no such element as fire in the natural world. It is the heart which is the spring and fountain of all eloquence. [ Lord Erskine ]

Liberty is the richest inheritance which man has received from the skies! When shall its sacred fire burn in every bosom, and kindling with the thrilling force of inspiration, spread from heart to heart and from mind to mind, and be the common privilege and birthright of every human being? [ Acton ]

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work. [ Theodore Parker ]

By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry. [ Bryant ]

Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]

Honor is not a virtue in itself, it is the mail behind which the virtues fight more securely. A man without honor is as maimed in his equipment as an accoutred knight without helmet. Honor is not simply truthfulness; it is truthfulness sparkling with the fire of a suspective personality. It is something more than an ornament even to the loftiest. [ George H. Calvert ]

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]

It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]

fire in Scrabble®

The word fire is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fire:

FIRE
(33)
 

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fire in Words With Friends™

The word fire is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fire:

FIRE
(45)
 

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(27)
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(22)
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Words containing the sequence fire

Words that start with fire (196 words)

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Word Growth involving fire

Shorter words in fire

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re ire

Longer words containing fire

afire

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bonfire bonfires

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firewomen

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