Light Quotes

Frank zappa, interview with this submitter, new york city, 5/08/1980 - the function of government ought to be: make sure...
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
Firmianus Lactantius
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Maxwell Planck
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
John Owen
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine
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
Maurice freehill - who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark...
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Gen. Peyton C. March
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
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
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Benjamin Johnson
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
George Eliot
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato the Elde
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko Yoshida
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
Napoleon I
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire
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
Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.
Henry C. Blinn
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M Scott Peck
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
Gwendolyn Brooks
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.
Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann von Goethe