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To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.  ~Charles Dudley Warner


It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.  ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692


Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.  ~Italian Proverb


The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.  ~Leigh Hunt


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


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


Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it.  The reason?  Because he alone has learned to put it out.  ~Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr.


If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem.  Everything else is inconvenience.  ~Robert Fulghum


Fire is the most tolerable third party.  ~Henry David Thoreau


Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.  ~Proverb


Don't let your dreams go up in smoke - practice fire safety.  ~Author Unknown


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


A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.  ~Robert Herrick


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


Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.  ~Horace


Fires all go out eventually.  ~Author Unknown


Fire takes no holiday.  ~Author Unknown


Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.  ~Author Unknown


If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.  ~Saying


Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.  ~Proverb


Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.  ~Edgar Allan Poe


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


Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest?  What is the logic in that?  What, do tall people burn slower?  ~Warren Hutcherson


Practice fire safety - watch what you heat.  ~Author Unknown


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


Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.  ~Author Unknown


How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?  ~Author Unknown


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


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


Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.  ~Proverb


Love is like a friendship caught on fire.  In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.  As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.  ~Bruce Lee


Time is the fire in which we burn.  ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937  (Thank you, George.)


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


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


When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook."  He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark."  ~Steven Moffat, Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000


There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.  ~Vincent van Gogh


Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.  ~Garrison Keillor

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