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

Time is the fire in which we burn.  ~Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day," 1937  (Thank you, George.)

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves.  For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.  ~Author Unknown

Practice fire safety – watch what you heat.  ~Author Unknown

Fires all go out eventually.  ~Author Unknown

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.  ~Roger L’Estrange, Aesop’s Fables, 1692

Don’t fling your butt beside the trail and we won’t fling your butt in jail.  ~Author Unknown

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor.  ~Author Unknown

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.  ~George Bernard Shaw

The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.  ~Leigh Hunt

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. CameronQSO

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.  ~Proverb

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.  ~Proverb

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.  ~Proverb