Top 42 Extinguishes Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco
#3. 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
#4. Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well
Bernard Levin
#5. The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me,
extinguishes me.
John Green
#6. What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.
Jack Vance
#7. For many of the dying, intensive care, with its isolation among strangers, extinguishes their hope of not being abandoned in the last hours. If fact, they are abandoned, to the good intentions of highly skilled professional personnel who barely know them.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#8. A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
Ovid
#9. There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Helen Fisher
#10. Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
John Cage
#11. We aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.
Robin Hobb
#12. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#13. Life can make a person weary and wary, and the body and soul become fatigued. Unalleviated tedium extinguishes the light in the soul.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#14. Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...
Marguerite De Navarre
#15. 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
#16. Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.
Sathya Sai Baba
#17. I feel. I feel. Strong and untouchable and capable. An exquisite glow of joy fills me up and extinguishes my anger. For this instant, I am whole again. I am not broken or empty. The shadow-self inside me that compels me to kill is silent. I am unburdened. I am complete.
Elizabeth May
#19. Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.
George Horne
#23. When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
Stefan Molyneux
#24. There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#25. 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
#26. The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.
Gautama Buddha
#27. Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
Norm MacDonald
#29. War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#30. The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time
("Spanish Generosity")
Max Jacob
#32. Power is the central promise of evil, the dark light of that lamp, because nothing extinguishes the soul more quickly than pride in power.
Dean Koontz
#33. And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.
Andrew Ashling
#34. In prayer you gain your strength - the power to gird yourself with armor that extinguishes every weapon your enemy wields.
Priscilla Shirer
#35. 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
#36. Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
Pope Pius II
#37. Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
#39. Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
Hannah More
#40. Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#41. All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us.
Eddie Huang
#42. 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
