Horace Quotes

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.

What we need as much as money is consensus about how we live [with fire] in that countryside [prone to forest fires] or at least agreement about how to decide…. More than 72,000 communities are at risk and only 20% have a plan for protection.

They have under invested in fire for so long that the catch up costs seem staggering. The traditional inclination is to rely on emergency interventions rather than systemic reforms.