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Tag Name "Extinguishes" (17)

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn
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When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
E. O. Wilson
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Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.
Gautama Buddha
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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
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A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
Ovid
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The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
Virginia Woolf
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It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.
Curt Sachs
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I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Helen Fisher
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Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.
Marguerite de Navarre
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Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.
Ovid
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When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
Stefan Molyneux