Light Quotes

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Cato the elde - from lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel...
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
William Shakespeare
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel
Honore de balzac - this coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind...
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
Lucius annaeus seneca - he who has great power should use it lightly....
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitze
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
Carl Zwanzig
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltze
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.
Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias
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
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Roosevelt, Eleano
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
More light! Give me more light!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.
Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
Henry Kissinge
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Michael J. Gel
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, Collected poems (1952)
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".
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus
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
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
Lao Tzu
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain
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
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Doris Lessing
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.
Unknown
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Alexander Pope
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde