Candle Quotes - Page 6

• Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Insects, Moths

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.176

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• When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.

  Red Skelton

  Hurt, Garden, Thinking

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• Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

  James Keller

  Light, Hopeful, Darkness

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• On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
  Light yourself a candle bright.
  I'll you, if you will me invite
  To dance within that gentle light.

  Nick Gordon

  Dark, Night, Light

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  My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

  Wernher von Braun

  God, Science, Light

  Letter to the California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

  Michael Faraday

  Philosophy, Doors, Study

  Michael Faraday (2016). “The Chemical History of a Candle”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

  Mason Cooley

  Flower, Doe, Evoke

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• ...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.

  Laini Taylor

  Wall, Flames, Wind

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Men, Melancholy

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

  John Steinbeck

  Artist, Light, Heaven

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• For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Birthday, Cake, Numbers

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• She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

  Lewis Carroll

  Flames, Fancy, Remember

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.

  Judah Leon Magnes

  Men, Israel, Flames

  "Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest". Book by Allen Klein, p. 93, 2013.

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• The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

  Irving Greenberg

  Light, Darkness, Hanukkah

  Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Temptation, Gold

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

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• 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Death, Prayer, Rap

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Should Have

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• Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.

  Carrie Underwood

  Book, Yummy, Bed

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• The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.

  Dorothy Parker

  Humorous, Home, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

  Jim Beaver

  Light, Might, Way

  Jim Beaver (2009). “Life's That Way”, p.261, Penguin

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• A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.284, Penguin

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• My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.

  Karl Hess

  Song, Responsibility, Light

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• Daddy pays for the water, daddy pays for the gas, daddy pays for the electricity, and if daddy didn't pay for the electricity, he'd pay for the candle on your nightstand, so you can study for the big test tomorrow.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Daddy

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• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

  Don McLean

  Fire, Games, Devil

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• Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

  Confucius

  Light, Darkness, Curse

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