| "Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes." »Abigail Van Buren |
| "I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." »Franois Auguste Ren Rodin |
| "Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need." »Titus Maccius Plautus |
| "To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." »Marnie Reed Crowell |
| "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." »Max L. Forman |
| "On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard." »Lloyd Garrison |
| "You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul." »Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev |
| "There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." »David Ben-Gurion |
| "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." »Samuel Butler |
| "A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table." »Jean Kerr |
| "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (On relations with the US)" »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding." »Agnes Repplier |
| "I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely |
| "If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they" »George Carlin |
| "Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil." »Plato |
| "Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue." »Confucius |
| "Out of the frying pan into the fire." »Quintus Septimius Tertullianus |
| "Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished." »Luisa Sigea |
| "Time is the fire in which we burn." »Gene Roddenberry |
| "If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it." »Danish proverb |
| "Love in its essence is spiritual fire." »Swedenborg |
| "Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." »Thomas Fuller |
| "Love is friendship set on fire." »Jeremy Taylor |
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