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Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
— Heraclitus
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
[Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.] — George Herbert
[Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.] — George Herbert
Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
— Shams-i Tabrizi
As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.
— Lucan
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.
— Martin R. Lemieux
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wouldn't take him back if he were the last man on earth. I'm 'if he caught fire, and I had a glass of water, I'd drink it slowly and watch' done.
— R.K. Lilley
We are creatures of fire and water. We wither under a surfeit of light as readily as we wither beneath drowned hopes.
— Yoon Ha Lee
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
— Roger L'Estrange
One could say lightning is the marriage of fire and air." "One could say mud is the marriage of water and earth," he said dismissively.
— Sherry Thomas
A nature of fire is to burn, nature of water is to cool, and nature of Nature itself is to preserve.
— Santosh Kalwar
The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:
If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...
I would drink IT. — Tuba Javed
If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...
I would drink IT. — Tuba Javed
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.
— Margery Allingham
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
— Kurt Vonnegut
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
— Aesop
All things are formed of patterns, from a single blade of grass to the most majestic of mountains: air and water, fire and earth; Life itself.
— Melissa McPhail
I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
— Annie Dillard
If water won't smother the blaze
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither. — Zakariya Amataya
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither. — Zakariya Amataya
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! — Rudyard Kipling
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! — Rudyard Kipling
Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
— James MacDonald
I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Let the sky lead me, the land ground me, the fire cleanse me, and the water feed me.
— Emily R. King
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.
— Terry Pratchett
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will.
— Oumar Dieng
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
— Thomas Brooks
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
— Buffalo Bill
Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!
— Michel De Montaigne
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
— Fernand Leger
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
— Charles Dickens
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
— Mahavira
Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children.
— Robin Hobb
Words are good servants but bad masters.
— Aldous Huxley
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.
— George R R Martin
The Fire Team's tanks were filled with a jellied gasoline/holy water mix: scourging and sacramental.
— Nick Cutter
I save on food, on water, on fire and on adjetives.
— Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.
— Jonathan Maberry
Your powers don't work in the rain do they? A little bit of water and your fire fizzles out? So Little Miss Perfect does have a weakness after all!
— Heather James
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The
— Ross Macdonald
The kiss surrounded her like air, held her up like water, supported her like the earth and burned her like fire.
— Tiffany Reisz
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
— Cornelia Funke
A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
— William Shakespeare
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
— Anne Bradstreet
There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
— James Stockdale
I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands — Elton John
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands — Elton John
My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
— Arthur Potts Dawson