Fire Hazard Quotes

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

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

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

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

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

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

Why don't you light that candle ?

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

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.

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

A third of the city's population of over two million people live under unsatisfactory conditions, many under distressing conditions, some under disgraceful conditions. For thousands home is a mockery. It consists of two or three small rooms of which but one is adequately lighted and often even not that one and none of which is adequately ventilated; rooms that in the hot summer day become an inferno of torture to little children, the sick, and the weak. For the persons living in these homes there is little privacy; there are no reticences; they must share the process of living with other families; they must use a common water closet [toilet]; they must get all the water they use from a common faucet in the public hall; the fire peril menaces them at all times …

Keep away from the fire!

Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

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

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 caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

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

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

Last night I slept like a log. I woke up in the fire place.

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.