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Man is the animal that has made friends with the fire.
~ Henry Van Dyke

You can hide fire, but what of the smoke?
~ Author Unknown

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.
~ James Leigh Hunt
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
~ Charles Dudley Warner

Make no fire, raise no smoke.
~ John Heywood

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

The nearer the fire, the hotter.
~ Egbert of Liege

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

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

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
~ W.B. Yeats

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
~ Dante Alighieri
To take fire from fire.
~ Cicero

From a little spark may burst a flame.
~ Dante Alighieri
He that would have fire must bear with smoke.
~ Dutch Proverb

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.

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
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

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

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

Fires all go out eventually.
~ Author Unknown

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

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.
~ African Proverb

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
~ Robert Herrick

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

Fire takes no holiday.
~ Author Unknown

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