Light Quotes

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 poetry.

Bertrand Russell

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

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

Bill Cosby

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Franois Maurice Mitterrand

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Dame Edith Sitwell

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Robert Darwin

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Old Chinese Prove

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

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

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

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams

There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurbe

Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.

Ripley D. Saunders

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

Daylight follows a dark night.

Maasai Prove

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

More light! Give me more light!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.

Jerry Garcia, Scarlet Bergonias

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.

Unknown

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)

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

George Carlin

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

Bertrand Russell