Light Quotes
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
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
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.Home
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.Euripides
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
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.Benjamin Franklin
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
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.Anonymous, Greensleeves
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
What is to give light must endure burning.Dr. Viktor E Frankl
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.James Thurbe
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
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.Isaac Asimov
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)
There is no place more delightful than home.Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?Epictetus, Discourses
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.Patrick Overton
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.John Milton
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.Benjamin Franklin
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
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.Baltasar Gracian
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.Sir Walter Scott
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.Jess Lai
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.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.Coventry Patmore
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
