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Fire Quotes - Page 102

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

"The Jokers Take Heart - Pundits Ponder The Implications". The Washington Post, May 06, 1987.

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.323, tredition

Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass.

"Purported Saddam message: Burn them in Baghdad". www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.