Sayings about Fire
It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire. ~ Indian Proverb
It is useful to first see the spark before the fire. ~ Japanese Proverb
Ideas are something that usually comes like fireman– too late. ~ Jewish Proverb
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. ~ German Proverbs
A little fire burns up a great deal of corn. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A burnt child dreads the fire. ~ English Proverb
Life, like a fire, begins in smoke and ends in ashes. ~ Arabian Proverb
Fire does not extinguish fire. ~ Greek Proverb
Smoke in your own country is purer than fire in a foreign land. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
Smoke spreads further than the fire. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
It’s no time to play chess when the house is on fire. ~ Italian Proverb
The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~ Italian Proverb
I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn. ~ John Wesley
Let him who is cold blow the fire. ~ French Proverb
Add not fire to fire. ~ Greek Proverb
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. ~ Traditional Proverb
Man, woman, and love created fire. ~ Spanish Proverb
If you play with fire you get burned. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you have a tail of straw, then keep away from the fire. ~ Argentine Proverbs
Fire has no brother. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Water from far away is no good for a fire close by. ~ Chinese Proverb
You may poke a man’s fire after you’ve known him for seven years. ~ English Proverb
He who blows on the fire will get sparks in his eyes. ~ German Proverb
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. ~ Eskimo Proverb
It may be a fire today — tomorrow it will be ashes. ~ Arabian Proverb
Blood boils without fire. ~ Spanish Proverb
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~ Traditional Proverb
You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke? ~ Creole Proverb
Fire does not make fire, only ashes. ~ African Proverb
The only insurance against fire is to have two houses. ~ Nigerien Proverb
When there is a war between fire and water, fire loses. ~ Spanish Proverb
Do not dress in clothes made of leaves when going to put out a fire. ~ Chinese Proverb
If your beard’s on fire, others will light their pipes on it. ~ Turkish Proverb
Fire is a good slave, but a bad master. ~ Albanian Proverb
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks. ~ Irish Proverb
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. ~ English Proverb
The word “enough” does not exist for water, fire, and women. ~ Ukrainian Proverb
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor. ~ Irish Proverb
The fire doesn’t care about the owner of the coat that is burning. ~ Danish Proverb
Pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret. ~ Rwandan Proverb
A hidden fire is discovered by its smoke. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Fire is never a gentle master ~ Traditional Proverb
Crooked logs make straight fires. ~ English Proverb
A good fire makes a quick cook. ~ Dutch Proverb
Everyone makes firewood of a fallen tree. ~ Mexican Proverbs
With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone. ~ Dutch Proverb
Fire starts with sparks. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
No chicken will fall into the fire a second time. ~ African Proverb
If you are in hiding, don’t light a fire. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
Fight fire with fire. ~ Traditional Proverb
If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you. ~ French Proverb
Soft fire makes sweet malt. ~ English Proverb
Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ~ Albanian Proverb
Better a small fire that warms you than a big one that burns you. ~ French Proverb
He who cannot light a fire knows nothing about love. ~ Finnish Proverbs
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who wants a fire must be able to bear smoke. ~ German Proverb
Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the smoke. ~ Greek Proverbs
Paper can’t wrap up a fire. ~ Chinese Proverb
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other. ~ German Proverbs
He who has come through the fire will fade in the sun. ~ Indian Proverbs
Foul water will quench fire. ~ English Proverbs
If a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet will burn up. ~ Afghan Proverb
What you lose in the fire, you will find amongst the ashes. ~ French Proverb
He who has a head of wax must not go near the fire. ~ French Proverb
Clouds do not always mean rain, but smoke is a sure sign of fire. ~ African Proverb
He, who runs away from the fire, falls in the water. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Quotations about Fire
The most tangible of all visible mysteries–fire. ~ Leigh Hunt
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~ Robert Herrick
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
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~ Odell Shepard
When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn. ~ John Wesley
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. ~ Ovid
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~ William Shakespeare
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor’s house is on fire. ~ Horace
Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose, to drive the shadows back; Prolong the talk on this or that excuse…. ~ Philip Larkin
We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire. ~ Heraclitus of Ephesus
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
From small fires comes oft no small mishap. ~ George Herbert
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Poch
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Fire takes no holiday. ~ Author Unknown
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. ~ John Lyly
Fire destroys that which feeds it. ~ Simone Weil
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Don’t let your dreams go up in smoke – practice fire safety. ~ Author Unknown
Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire. ~ William Butler Yeats
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. ~ Abigail Van Buren
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
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~ Roger L’Estrange
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. ~ Robert Herrick
Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. ~ Richard M. Nixon
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. ~ Pierre Corneille
Practice fire safety – watch what you heat. ~ Author Unknown
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
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
It takes two flints to make a fire. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth. ~ Bible
Anything that creates a spark is going to start, potentially, a big brush fire. ~ Victor Hill
Words pregnant with celestial fire. ~ William Cowper
Fire is the most tolerable third party. ~ 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. ~ Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. ~ Horace
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
