Light Quotes

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Logan Pearsall Smith

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Siddha Nagarjuna

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltze

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Ingrid Bergman

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Georges Bernanos

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Isaac Newton

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.

Unknown

In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

Home

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Jordan, Robert

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Jack Kerouac

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Cato the Elde

Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Francis Quarles

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas