Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind
blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
-- La Rochefoucald
blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
-- La Rochefoucald
Related:
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases
great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
-- La Rochefoucauld... - Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind
extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
-- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)... - Rage is a wind that blows out the candle of reason.
- Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
- Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it
enkindles the great.
-- Comte DeBussy-Rabuti... - Our lives are like a candle in the wind. Carl Sandburg
- School is like that ol' North wind -- it blows!
- 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. -- Malaclypse the Younge
- When the wind blows, worship its roar. -- Pythagora
