Despicable Wood Stove

Add not fire to fire. - Greek proverb

Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard Thurman

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. - Emanuel Swedenborg

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. - Benjamin Disraeli

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. - Henry Ford

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. - Italian Proverb

I'm tired of recipes assuming I have a stove. - Kevin Farzad

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. - Robert Frost

Tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship. - Captain James Lawrence

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. - Joe Biden

If someone's lying, are their pants really on fire? - Jerry Seinfeld

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young

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

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. - Harrison Ford

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

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me. - William Blake

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people. - Kathy Austin

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. - Steven Wright

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting. - Plutarch

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

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. - Eskimo Proverb

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. - Thomas Fuller

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. - Ethel Merman

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. - Toyohiko Kagawa

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H Glasow

I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove. - Groucho Marx

I took a physical for some life insurance. All they would give me was fire and theft. - Milton Berle

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

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. - Zen Buddhist Saying

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

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. - Thomas Jefferson

There's such a buildup of crud in my oven, there's only room to bake a single cupcake. - Phyllis Diller

A statistician can have his head in the oven and his feet in ice, and on average he feels fine. - Unknown

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? - Unknown

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

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

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

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

Let's be frank, the Italians' technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven. - Bill Bryson

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

The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven. - Tom Douglas

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey

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

In case of fire, don't panic. Simply flee the building with the same reckless abandon that occurs each day at quitting time. - Don Delcourt

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder

At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. - Erica Jong

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. - Ernest Hemingway

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell

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

Some primal termite knocked on wood,
And tasted it, and found it good;
That is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today. - Ogden Nash

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing. - Melissa McCarthy