Why Fire Trucks Are Red

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. - Winston Churchill

The best defense against logic is ignorance. - Blaise Pascal

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. - Norman Cousins

Everything's better with bacon and red wine. - Dianne Harman

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right. - Blaise Pascal

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug. - Al Gore

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned. - Jeremy Taylor

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. - Edith Sodergran

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. - Liz Smith

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it. - Edward Gibbon

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match. - Unknown

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry

Sleeping is my drug; my bed is my dealer; and my alarm clock is the police. - Unknown

A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light. - Henry Morgan

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - G K Chesterton

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. - David Russell

We feel free when we escape - even when it be from the frying pan into the fire. - Eric Hoffer

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn. - John Wesley

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright

Me and my bed are perfect for each other, but my alarm clock keeps trying to break us up. - Unknown

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. - Unknown

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick. - Gwyneth Paltrow

Trials function like a fire that burns off every impurity impeding our progress towards holiness. - David Jeremiah

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof! - Archie Bunker

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me. - Mark Zuckerberg

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford

The fire of the diamond of true identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. - Kenneth G Mills

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. - Dolly Parton

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are. - David Letterman

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

I have a microwave fireplace in my house... The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes. - Steven Wright

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. - Donald Trump