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Chimneys Quotes

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

Marian Anderson
Work, Chimneys, Knows

Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.

George Herbert
Fire, Chimneys, Satin
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Annie Dillard
Beautiful, Real, Chimneys
Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

Albert Einstein
Horse, Thinking, Chimneys
"What I've Learned: Albert Einstein", www.esquire.com. April 16, 2007.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Summer, Soldier, Chimneys

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Hubert H. Humphrey
Thinking, Wilderness, Chimneys
Remarks at University of Chicago, January 14, 1966.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

Steve Martin
Chimneys, Shots
Twitter post from Oct 5, 2011

There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.

Angie Sage
Fall, Way, Chimneys
Angie Sage (2014). “Fyre: Septimus Heap”, p.229, A&C Black

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

Storm Jameson
Writing, Ambition, Chimneys
Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.398, A&C Black

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.

Tim Vine
House, Firsts, Chimneys
"Tim Vine wins Dave award for funniest joke of Edinburgh fringe festival" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2014.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

George Herbert
Summer, Chimneys
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

George Herbert
Chimneys
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

George Herbert
Two, Easier, Chimneys
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.359

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