Light Quotes

Sir walter scott - to all, to each, a fair good night, and pleasing...
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Patrick overton - when we walk to the edge of all the light we have...
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
Gwendolyn brooks - to be in love is to touch with a lighter hand. in...
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
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Kelle
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
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
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
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
Jess Lai
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurbe
Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - Of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.
Graham Clarke
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
Anonymous
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
Doug McLeod
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
C. V. R. Thompson
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color - Blind.
Albert Schweitze
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
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
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
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Saint Augustine
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
Kahlil Gibran
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Edmund Spense
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Benjamin Johnson
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson