Fire in flax will smoke. [ Proverb ]
To give light from smoke. [ Motto ]
No smoke without some fire. [ Proverb ]
The smoke follows the fair. [ Proverb ]
Impatience changeth smoke to flame. [ Erasmus ]
Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. [ Chinese Proverb ]
True valour is fire, bullying is smoke. [ Proverb ]
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. [ Beaconsfield ]
He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke. [ Proverb ]
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. [ German Proverb ]
They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke. [ William Shakespeare, King John, Act II. Sc.1 ]
Hymen comes after love, as smoke after flame. [ Chamfort ]
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
Things fit only to give weight to smoke. (Trifles) [ Persius ]
Wealth comes and goes like smoke, like everything. [ Bret. Proverb ]
Who walks through fire will hardly heed the smoke. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe. [ George Sand ]
You are like fig-tree fuel, much smoke and little fire. [ Proverb ]
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. [ Lyly ]
Where there is smoke there is fire (flame is very close to smoke). [ Plaut ]
The smoke of one's own house is better than the fire at another's. [ Proverb ]
Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts. [ Byron ]
He that makes a fire of straw hath much smoke, and but little warmth. [ Proverb ]
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. [ Spenser ]
It is an impudent kind of sorcery to attempt to blind us with the smoke without convincing us that the fire has existed. [ Junius ]
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [ George Eliot ]
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 ]
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. [ Dante ]
He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]
Beautiful to Ledyard, stiffening in the cold of a northern winter, seemed the diminutive, smoke-stained women of Lapland, who wrapped him in their furs, and ministered to his necessities with kindness and gentle words. [ Whittier ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]
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 ]
Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]