Don't iron while the strike is hot.

-Anonymous
  Women's liberation slogan, quoted in PBS broadcast, 26  Jan.

Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 6:27^8.

She had a mannish manner of mind and face, able to feel hot and think cold.

-Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel
  Herself Surprised, ch.7.

We must beatthe ironwhile it ishot, but we may polish it at leisure.

-Dryden,John
  Aeneis (his translation of  Virgil's  Aeneid), dedication.

Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'The Cool Web'.

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.9.

This minx, of course, Is as sharp as any lynx and blackerödeeper than the drinks and quite as Hot as any hottentot, without remorse!

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Hornpipe'.

Cool is Hot.

-WashingtonTimes
  Headline, 9 May, on Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis's low-key campaign for Democratic presidential nomination.

   That vessel in which the powers of steam are to be employed to work the engine, which is called the Cylinder in common fire engines, and which I call the SteamVessel, must, during the whole time the engine is at work, be kept ashot asthesteamthat entersit; first, by enclosing it ina case of wood, oranyother materialsthat transmit heat slowly; secondly, by surrounding it with steam or other heated bodies; and thirdly, by suffering neither water noranyother substance colder thansteam to enter and touch it during that time.

-Watt,James
  Specification of patent, 5 Jan, for a new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines.