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Fire Quotes - Page 98

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

"Obama Draws Bipartisan Criticism for Using Oil Spill to Push Energy Policy". www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2010.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson, Peter Happe (1996). “The Devil Is An Ass”, p.69, Manchester University Press

Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press