#burns

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. ↗

— Victor Borge

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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. ↗

— Ovid

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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

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And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth. ↗

— Len G. Murray

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And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. ↗

— Len G. Murray

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For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death. ↗

— Len G. Murray

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