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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? (Quote by - Warren Hutcherson)

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. (Quote by - Horace)

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. (Quote by - Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld)

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. (Quote by - John Lyly)

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. (Quote by - Comte De Bussy-Rabutin)

Fire is the most tolerable third party. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Henry Jackson Vandyke)

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

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

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. (Quote by - Elsa Maxwell)

The enemy could not have got a handful of men, through the cross-fire. (Quote by - John Bigelow)

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)

The burnt child dreads the fire. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide. (Quote by - Aristotle)

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Quote by - Bible)

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)

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