555 Proverbs about Fire / Page 24
461. Me do not know hard firewood, but only lops people put aside hard tasks and devote themselves only to easy ones.
462. To get the warmth of fire one must stir the embers.
463. Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand.
464. The cimex lives in the firewood and still it reaches its full growth.
465. Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat.
466. The cooking pot on the fire leaks, when pouring water it is broken.
467. It is always the potato of another family's boy that extinguishes the fire.
468. A warrior's blood boils before the fire is hot.
469. One piece of wood will not make a fire.
470. If the hill is on fire the grasshoppers are roasted.
471. It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
472. You may well have caught a bird, but have you a fire to roast it on?
473. Kif is like fire; a little warms, a great deal burns.
474. It is the one who lies by a fire who feels the heat.
475. Burnt child fears fire.
476. You don't have to put out the fire when all is burnt out.
477. Don't just cross a river -- cross it bearing fire.
478. A burnt bairn fire dreads.
479. A fair fire makes a room flet.
480. Better a little fire that warms, nor a meikle that burns.
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