Light Quotes

Josh billings - after enlightenment, the laundry....
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
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bhagavad gita - there are two ways of passing from this world -...
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.
Ferdinand Hodle
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
John Milton
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
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.
Unknown
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Henry Ward Beeche
Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.
Albert Einstein
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurbe
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
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Theresa
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Cicero
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, Collected poems (1952)
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
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
Robert Hutchins
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beeche
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
J. B. Priestley
It is light grief that can take counsel.
Anonymous
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
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
Chinese Prove
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Kelle
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
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
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Dbjanski
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
Henry Kissinge
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
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
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