Light Quotes

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Spanish Prove

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Prove

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

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

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain

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

Bill Cosby

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Marrion Zimmer Bradley

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

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

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

George Carlin

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

Unknown

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

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

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

lovers alone wear sunlight.

E. e. cummings

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

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.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Henry Watton

The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.

Batman

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Josh Billings

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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

There is no place more delightful than home.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Raymond Holliwell