Light Quotes

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
George Carlin
Marquis de sade - the degradation which characterizes the state...
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.
Unknown
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
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals... must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
Isaac Watts
Maurice druon - number is the word but is not utterance it is...
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. e. cummings
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
Alexander smith - love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,...
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
There is no place more delightful than home.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.
John Claypool
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.
Newt Gingrich
To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Sir Walter Scott
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
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
G. K. Chesterton
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".
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
Karl Kraus
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey
Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
G. K. Chesterton
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Maxwell Planck
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Sir John Denham
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
W. B. Yeats
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.
Jesse Lai
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
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
Jess Lai
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
Put out the light.
Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Ghandi, 1931
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
Carl Zwanzig