![]() but I have no idea that it compares, for pleasantness, with a seat before a wood fire. When the fire is made, you want to sit in front of it and grow genial in its effulgence. ~Jean Giono (1895–1970), Regain, 1930, translated from the French by Henri Fluchè and Geoffrey Myers, Harvest, 1939įirelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. The frisky flame reared against the cauldron. Olive-wood fires are good because they catch quickly, but they are just like colts, prancing around elegantly without thinking of work. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692įire is the best of servants but what a master! ~Thomas Carlyle, "Abbot Samson," Past and Present, 1843 It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Charles Dudley Warner, Backlog Studies, 1873įire and water are good servants but bad masters. I should like to know if an artist could ever represent on canvas a happy family gathered round a hole in the floor called a register. It brings in cheerfulness, and a family centre, and, besides, it is artistic. ~Henry Van Dyke, "The Open Fire," Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things, 1899Ī wood fire on the hearth is a kindler of the domestic virtues. The reason? Because he alone has learned how to put it out. Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and to live with it. ~Henry Van Dyke, "The Open Fire," Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things, 1899īut there is one thing lacking in various animal dwellings, - a fireplace. Man is the animal that has made friends with the fire. Fire slumbers never far off, and the friction of a match can awaken it. A match was rubbed, fire elicited, and now this fire is the most emphatic and significant fact hereabouts. At first there was a pile of cold fat pine roots on the icy rock. Our fire paints the dark with jumping gold. What a trustful guardian of secret matters is fire! What should we do without fire and death? ~Nathaniel Hawthorne The world has no more such, and now they are all dust and ashes. I burned great heaps of old letters, and other papers. ![]() ~Charles Dudley Warner, Backlog Studies, 1873 To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. To have our eyes ache once more with smoke! What a peculiar, perhaps indescribable color has this flame! - a reddish or lurid yellow, not so splendid or full of light as of life and heat. What a good word is "flame," expressing the form and soul of fire, lambent with forked tongue!. Wax-lights, though we are accustomed to overlook the fact, and rank them with ordinary commonplaces, are true fairy tapers, - a white metamorphosis from the flowers, crowned with the most intangible of all visible mysteries - fire. How can a person be attached to a house that has no centre of attraction, no soul in it, in the visible form a glowing fire, and a warm chimney, like the heart in the body? ~Charles Dudley Warner, Backlog Studies, 1873 Fire Quotes, Sayings about Fires, Fire Safety The Quote Garden ™
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