Horace Quotes

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

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.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Why should a man have a better right to kill his neighbor with a house than with an axe in the street?

I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

Keep away from the fire!

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

Flame is very near to smoke.

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.

You might be a redneck if every electrical outlet in your house is a fire hazard.