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| A little fire burns up a great deal of corn. | 1 |
A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which being suffered rivers cannot quench. Shakespeare. | 2 |
| A small fire that warms you is better than a large one that burns you. Danish. | 3 |
| Any water will put out fire. French, Italian. | 4 |
| Fire and straw soon make a flame. Danish. | 5 |
| Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. | 6 |
| Fire and water are two good servants. German. | 7 |
| Fire drives the wasp out of its nest. Italian. | 8 |
| Fire in flax will smoke. | 9 |
| Fire is not quenched with fire. Italian. | 10 |
| Fire is not quenched with tow. | 11 |
| Green wood makes a hot fire. | 12 |
| He carries fire and water. French. | 13 |
| He carries fire in the one hand and water in the other. | 14 |
| He that will have fire must bear with smoke. Dutch, Danish. | 15 |
| If you want fire look for it in the ashes. German. | 16 |
| It is a good fire when the neighbor gives the wood. German. | 17 |
| It is as bad to spit out the fire and be ashamed as to swallow it and be burned. Danish. | 18 |
| It is bad to be between two fires. Danish. | 19 |
| It is good to warm one’s self by another’s fire. Dutch. | 20 |
| It never smokes but there is a fire. | 21 |
| It won’t do to trifle with fire. French. | 22 |
| Kindle not a fire you cannot extinguish. | 23 |
| More fuel, more fire. Chinese. | 24 |
| No fire without smoke. French. | 25 |
| Put out the fire betimes before it reach the roof. German. | 26 |
| Saft fire maks sweet mawt. | 27 |
| Soft fire makes sweet malt. | 28 |
| The fire heeds little whose cloak it burns. Danish. | 29 |
| The fire is welcome when icicles hang without. Danish. | 30 |
| The fire of London was a punishment for gluttony. | 31 |
| The fire that burneth taketh the heat out of a burn. | 32 |
| The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. | 33 |
| The fire which lighteth us at a distance will burn us when near. | 34 |
| The most covered fire is always the most glowing. French. | 35 |
| The one kindles the fire, the other blows it. (One begins the evil, the other increases it.) Modern Greek. | 36 |
| The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw. Italian. | 37 |
| There is no fire without smoke. Danish. | 38 |
| There is no quenching of fire with tow. | 39 |
| There is no smoke without fire. | 40 |
| They who shun the smoke often fall into the fire. Italian. | 41 |
| To cast oil into the fire is not the way to quench it. | 42 |
| To save your house from neighboring fire is hard. Ovid. | 43 |
| When the next house is on fire it is high time to look to your own. | 44 |
| When there is a fire in the neighborhood carry water to your own house. Italian. | 45 |
| Where there’s fire there’s smoke. Spanish. | 46 |
| Who hath skirts of straw must needs fear the fire. | 47 |
| Who wants fire let him look for it in the ashes. Dutch. | 48 |
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