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“In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.”

Ifs Needs Writing America Order United States Fire Red Garden England Characteristics Department Telephones Vivid Procedures Solicitors Fire Department English Love

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.”

People Speak Cases Fire England Murder

Book:The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c

Source: The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c

“Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.”

May Seems Causes Moral Fire England Suicide Characteristics Bedroom Antipathy

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.”

Men War Lying Fire Youth Honor England Every Man Breasts Thrive Reign Wardrobe

Author:William Shakespeare

“I went to England to tell jokes, and I wanted to tell my Smokey the Bear joke, but I had to ask the English people if they knew who Smokey the Bear is. But they don't. In England, Smokey the Bear is not the forest-fire-prevention representative. They have Smackie the Frog. It's a lot like a bear, but it's a frog. And that's a better system, I think we should adopt it. Because bears can be mean, but frogs are always cool. Never has there been a frog hopping toward me and I thought, "Man, I better play dead!"”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Mean Play Humor Wanted Funny Asks Fire Bears Jokes England Forests Representatives Frogs Prevention Hopping Forest Fires

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.”

May Doe Simple Answers Brain Millions Novel Fire Written One Day England Backgrounds Contemporary Journalism

Author:Sebastian Faulks

“His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.”

White Fire England Tonight Boots Arsenal

Author:Ron Atkinson

“I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.”

Ifs Goal Fire England What If Cameroon

Author:Ron Atkinson

“If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.”

Ifs World Would Be Fire Taste Pure Ideals England If I Could Refinement Ideal World Elizabethan Georgians

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land”

“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.”

“To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.”