Candle Quotes
-
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
Samuel Hoffenstein -
Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.
William Shakespeare
-
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
William Shakespeare -
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.
Michael Faraday -
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
William Shakespeare -
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.
Don McLean -
You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
-
The music paled like a candle and went out.
Stella Benson -
Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
Andrew Fletcher -
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.
Rabbi Hillel -
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare -
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.
Michael Faraday
-
Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her knees, huddled on the cold floor, her one remaining flame cradled in her numb palms. She’d seen how tenderly Simon had cared for his plants. Remembered the look of pride when she’d first discovered the dome and fountain. For him to have smashed all this . . . He must have lost hope. All hope.
Elizabeth Hoyt -
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.
Tommy Cooper -
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!
George Bernard Shaw -
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
William Butler Yeats -
Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
James Keller -
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.
Barry Hughart
-
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
Alberto Santos-Dumont -
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Rumi -
How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
William Penn