Don't play with the candle flames, children. Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
•At camp, we learned how to build and extinguish fires safely, since fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
fire is a good servant but a bad master — 1615 T. ADAMS Englands Sickness 20 The world, like fire, may be a good seruant, will bee an ill Master. 1738 SWIFT Polite Conversation ii. 183 Why, Fire and Water are good Servants, but they are very bad Masters. 1808 J. ADAMS Works (1850–6) VI.… … Proverbs new dictionary
good — see if you can’t be good, be careful a good beginning makes a good ending there’s many a good cock come out of a tattered bag no good deed goes unpunished he is a good dog who goes to church the good die young … Proverbs new dictionary
bad — see a bad excuse is better than none bad money drives out good bad news travels fast a bad penny always turns up bad things come in threes there is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes … Proverbs new dictionary
fire — see fire is a good servant but a bad master the same fire that melts the butter hardens the egg a burnt child dreads the fire dirty water will quench fire fight fire with fire you should know a man seven years before you stir hi … Proverbs new dictionary
master — see like master, like man the eye of a master does more work than both his hands fire is a good servant but a bad master Jack is as good as his master jack of all trades and master of none no man can serve two masters … Proverbs new dictionary
servant — see England is the paradise of women, the hell of horses, and the purgatory of servants fire is a good servant but a bad master … Proverbs new dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
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Geld — 1. Ach, nun fällt mi all mîn klên Geld bî. (Brandenburg.) Ein Ausruf, der häufig erfolgt, wenn jemand durch irgendeinen Umstand an etwas erinnert wird, was er hätte thun sollen, aber bisher zu thun vergessen hat. 2. All wîr1 Geld, dat et Wîf nig… … Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon
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