Extinguisher Quotes

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. (Victor Hugo)
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge. View quote
Henry George
I can't kill someone!" "You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher." "But that was family! And I didn't kill him. View quote
Meg Cabot
I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Legislative flexibility on the part of Congress will be the touchstone of federalism when the capacity to support combustion becomes the acid test of a fire extinguisher. Congressional flexibility is desirable, of course - but only within the bounds of federal power established by the Constitution. Beyond those bounds (the theory of our Constitution goes), it is a menace. View quote
Antonin Scalia
Recipe idea: take on fire extinguisher and pour out all the contents. Mix down a nice bright emulsion paint to the consistency of full fat milk, stirring constantly to remove any lumps. Pour into the extinguisher, screw on cap tightly and write on things up to 50 feet high. Re-use by swapping over the CO2 charged canister (costs about one pound). The perfect accompaniment to a night out drinking heavily with friends. View quote
Banksy
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. View quote
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. View quote
Charles Lamb
The suicide bomber is an explosion of a contradiction in its paradox, victim and victimizer, yin and yang, two sides of the coin, fire bomb and fire extinguisher, prosecutor and defendant, hangman and hanged. View quote
Giannina Braschi
In vain I speak of urgent tasks; In vain I scowl and pout; A frown is no extinguisher - It does not put him out! View quote
John Godfrey Saxe
It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - "Halt!" (C. S. Lewis)
Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - "Halt!" View quote
C. S. Lewis