555 Proverbs about Fire / Page 8
141. Even boiled water can extinguish a fire.
142. Fire is always a good maid, but a bad boss.
143. Fire that is surrounded by elders cannot burn you.
144. Firewood yields ash.
145. Foolhardiness made the rat try to jump over the fireplace.
146. He who brings firewood infected with maggots in his house should not complain when lizards start visiting him.
147. He who doesn't know what kills can sit on fire.
148. He who fears fire cannot be a leader.
149. He who lies by the fireside knows how it burns.
150. If a bachelor who uses firewood for cooking runs away in the morning to avoid removing the ash; he will have to deal with it when he comes back.
151. If you want to fight fire, you don't wear a skirt made of dry grass.
152. One cannot put out fire with fire.
153. One with more firewood than you, has more ash than you.
154. The bubbling flames are not fire.
155. There is no smoke without fire.
156. Truth is like fire it cannot be hidden under dry leaves.
157. What you do with injustice often backfires.
158. When the bush is on fire the chameleon learns to run first.
159. When you fight fire with fire, somebody is going to get hurt.
160. When you see a rat running in a fire then what it's running away from is hotter than fire.
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