555 Proverbs about Fire / Page 10
181. It's no time to play chess when the house is on fire.
182. When your neighbor's house is on fire, carry water to your own.
183. The fire doesn't care about the owner of the coat that is burning.
184. A burnt child fears the fire, and a bitten child fears a dog.
185. A large fire often comes from a small spark.
186. A small fire that warms you, is better than a large one that burns you.
187. A woman may be ever so old, if she take fire she will jump.
188. At court they sell a good deal of smoke without fire.
189. Dry wood makes a quick fire.
190. Every one rakes the fire under his own pot.
191. Fire and straw soon make a flame.
192. Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.
193. Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need.
194. He who has many irons in the fire, will let some of them burn.
195. He who would enjoy the fire must bear its smoke.
196. I would rather see smoke from my own chimney than the fire on another's hearth.
197. It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt.
198. It is bad to be between two fires.
199. It is easy to poke another man's fire.
200. It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth.
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