70 Fireside Quotes
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Famous Fireside Quotes
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. β Marcus Tullius Cicero
The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth. β Amy Poehler
The new national campfire - radio. β Linda Ellerbee
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. β Henry David Thoreau
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. β Odell Shepard
We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmthΒwe build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by. β Edna Ferber
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire β Robert W. Service
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. β Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? β Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. β Edith Sitwell
Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log. β Ellen DeGeneres
A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart. β Gladys Taber
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire. β Stephen King
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. β Vincent Van Gogh
A little fire that warms is better than a big fire that burns. β Irish Proverbs
Short Fireside Quotes
- Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens. β Douglas William Jerrold
- Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. β Douglas William Jerrold
- A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. β Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. β William Gilmore Simms
- You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. β Miguel de Cervantes
- Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. β Francis Bacon
- Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with. β Lin Yutang
- Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside. β Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. β Samuel Rogers
- The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. β George Eliot
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More Fireside Quotes
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race. β Susan B. Anthony
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. β Robert Burns
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! β Charles Dickens
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not necessary, but so very nice. It's Him...It's priceless to discover the pleasure of His company...May your home know something of all this glory during these days. β Jack W. Hayford
Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he seesβ¦ and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost. β George Eastman
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. β Eleanor Roosevelt
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? β Gustave Flaubert
We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out.... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us. β Mary Elizabeth Lease
The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. β Kenneth Grahame
My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties. β Kahlil Gibran
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. β Kahlil Gibran
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. β Thomas Jefferson
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance. β Elizabeth Montagu
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair. β Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers. β Brooks Atkinson
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from. β Ada Leverson
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. β Nathaniel Hawthorne
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. β Thomas De Quincey
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resultedβBalder, Persephoneβbut [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. β E.M. Forster
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants. β Thomas Jefferson
The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us. β Mary Elizabeth Lease
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals. β Winston Churchill
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity. β Ezra Taft Benson
We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. β Oliver Goldsmith
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? β Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends. β Gerald R. Ford
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue. β Paul Tournier
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside. β Judith Ellen Foster
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow. β Jane Austen
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon. β Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside. β Robert Wilson Lynd
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave. β Percy Bysshe Shelley
A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow. β Leigh Hunt
Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.' β J. F. C. Fuller
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music. β Salvador de Madariaga
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