Sunday 30 April 2017

Fire Sayings and Quotes



The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

Henry David Thoreau






Fire is the most tolerable third party.

Henry David Thoreau





Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Proverb





As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare





Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.    

Martha Graham





Fire is never a gentle master

Proverb





Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

William Shakespeare






When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Author Unknown





Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.    

Arnold Glascow





Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett





Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.

Proverb





Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Proverb





Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett





The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Leigh Hunt






What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.    

Charles Bukowski





Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha





Where there is smoke there is fire.    

Proverb





The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.

Chinese Proverb





Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

Jerry Smith





Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Otto Weininger





Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.

Proverb





Fire is never a gentle master

Proverb





The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.

Winston Churchill





Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

George Bernard Shaw





A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Mae West





Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.    

Mark Twain





Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

St Frances De Sales





One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Odell Shepherd





If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic.

Jack Handey





He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.    

W.J. Cameron

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