Light Quotes
Put out the light.Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.Haniel Long
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.Lyndon Johnson
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.Old Chinese Prove
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.E. L. Doctorow
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...Carl Zwanzig
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
It is light grief that can take counsel.Anonymous
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.John Masefield
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?Dick Francis, Twice Shy
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.Logan Pearsall Smith
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.Cicero
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.David Weatherford
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.Samuel Johnson
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
