Your own property is concerned...

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

~Horace~

When man invented fire, he did...

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~

To poke a wood fire is more so...

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

~Charles Dudley Warner~

Time is the fire in which we b...

Time is the fire in which we burn.

~Delmore Schwartz, ""Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day,"" 1937 (Thank you, George.)~

There may be a great fire in o...

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~

There can no great smoke arise...

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

~John Lyly~

The most tangible of all visib...

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

~Leigh Hunt~

The fire you kindle for your e...

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

~Chinese Proverbs~

The fire is the main comfort o...

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~

The burnt child dreads the fir...

The burnt child dreads the fire.

~Ben Jonson~

Since the house is on fire let...

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

~Italian Proverb~

Remember in elementary school ...

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 w...

Practice fire safety - watch what you heat.

~Author Unknown~

Playing with fire is bad for t...

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

~Author Unknown~

One can enjoy a wood fire wort...

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

~Odell Shepherd~

Man is the only creature that ...

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

~George Orwell~

Love is like a friendship caug...

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~

He who sits by the fire, thank...

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~

Life is a flame that is always...

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

~George Bernard Shaw~

It is with our passions as it ...

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants, but bad masters.

~Roger I'Estrange~