Chimneys Quotes

• Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Wine, Cups

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

  Julie Andrews

  Sky, Shoes, People

  Julie Andrews (1974). “Julie Andrews”

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• It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Fuel, Easier

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.7

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

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Real, Hoot

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

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• The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, House, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.156, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Steve Martin

  Shots

  Twitter post from Oct 5, 2011

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• Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Two, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Loneliness, Artist

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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• 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, Jokes

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

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• It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

  Kevin Keegan

  Eye, People, Pot

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• Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Moving On, Differences, Time To Move On

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.62, Vanderbilt University Press

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• No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

  Bertrand Russell

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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• We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Wall, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

  John Burroughs

  Work, Hands, Secret

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• The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
  In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Care, Would Be

  1822 The Night Before Christmas.

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• Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

  Christopher Columbus

  House, Shapes, Tents

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

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• The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tombstone, Sky

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

  Richard Morris Hunt

  Hunting, Goal, House

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• Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Squash, Roots, Dry

  Nicholas Culpeper (1863). “The complete herbal; to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities ... to which are now first annexed, The English physician, enlarged, and Key to physic ... New edition ... Illustrated by engravings of numerous British herbs and plants, correctly coloured from nature”, p.201

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• Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Views, Numbers, House

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• 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, Moved

  Remarks at University of Chicago, January 14, 1966.

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• When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'

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

  Albert Einstein

  Horse, Thinking, Walks

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

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• Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Men, Clouds

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Valley of Fear”, p.104, ebookspub

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