A Quote by John Heywood

Burnt child fire dredth.

John Heywood

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Burnt Child Fire

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John Heywood
English - Dramatist
1497 - 1580

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Aleister Crowley

A burnt child loves the fire.

Oscar Wilde

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

John Dewey

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

Ogden Nash

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

Ramakrishna

The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.

Bill Vaughan

Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?

John Wesley

The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!

Ray Bradbury

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

Blake Shelton

A burnt dog dreads the fire.

Willa Cather

A burnt finger remember the fire.

Alice Walker

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.