| "A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." »Ken Keys |
| "I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes." »Abigail Van Buren |
| "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 |
| "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." »Napoleon |
| "The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent." »John Andrew Holmes |
| "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 |
| "Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)" »Horace |
| "Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage." »Samuel S. Janus |
| "Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness" »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "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 |
| "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." »Russell Baker |
| "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington |
| "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 any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." »Francis Bacon |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished." »Luisa Sigea |
| "If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it." »Danish proverb |
| "Time is the fire in which we burn." »Gene Roddenberry |
| "Out of the frying pan into the fire." »Quintus Septimius Tertullianus |
| "Love is friendship caught on fire." »Unknown |
| "Love in its essence is spiritual fire." »Swedenborg |
| "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Love is friendship set on fire." »Jeremy Taylor |
| "Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." »Thomas Fuller |
| "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." »William Butler Yeats |
| "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." »William Butler Yeats |
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