Foul water will quench fire. [ Proverb ]
Water afar won't quench a fire at hand. [ Italian Proverb ]
Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]
Silk doth quench the fire in the kitchen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want can quench the eye's bright grace. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wine in the bottle doth not quench thirst. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Good words quench more than a bucket of water. [ 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 ]
Sleep, the fresh dew of languid love, the rain
Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again. [ Shelley ]
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. [ William Shakespeare ]
To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench it. [ Proverb ]
To cast oil into the fire, is not the way to quench it. [ Proverb ]
A little stream may quench thirst as well as a great river. [ Proverb ]
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]
Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]
Blest be the art that can immortalize, - the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it. [ Cowper ]
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 ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]