Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams
Woman: Do come along quick, there's a house on fire.
Fire Chief: A house on fire? Just a moment, lady what's the address?
Woman: Grimshaw Street.
Fire Chief: Grimshaw Street Grimshaw ... now wait a minute, I know it as well as can be, and I just can't place it.
Woman: Oh come along, it's only just round...
Fire Chief: No, no, no don't tell me, let me try and think of it for myself. Grimshaw St... oh, isn't that annoying, I could walk straight to it, and I can't think of it.Robb Wilton
First thy neighbour, and there after your own house.
Fatimah
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
Hans Christian von Baeyer
Say does your heart expand to all mankind
And would you ever to your neighbour do,
The weak, the strong, the enlightened and the blind
As you would have your neighbour do to you?Anne Bronte
Burke, Edmund
Burke, James (science historian)
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