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Fire Quotes and Sayings

Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire.
Leonard Rose

Love is the Fire of Life; it either consumes or purifies.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.
Leigh Hunt

Fire is never a gentle master.

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

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

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin

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

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.
Fred Shero

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

Suicide is man’s way of telling God, “You can’t fire me – I quit.”
Bill Maher

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

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

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

If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures’ will.
Alexander MacLaren

When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

True love is friendship — caught on fire.

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

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

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
William Shakespeare

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

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
Irish Sayings

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
William Shakespeare

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Mason Cooley

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

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
Robert Herrick

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

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

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.
William Shakespeare

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