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Fire

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

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 Shepard

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. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

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

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. – Proverb

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

Fires all go out eventually. – Author Unknown

Fire takes no holiday. – Author Unknown

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

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

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