LIGHT QUOTES

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
  ~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~
• 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.
  ~ Homer ~
• 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 ~
• Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
  ~ Charles Kingsley ~
• 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 ~
• Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come
  ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
• Energy is eternal delight.
  ~ William Blake ~
• 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 ~
• Sometimes the past is like the snow falling from the blue skies. If you are cold, hopeless, and unforgiving. The snow will never melt away it will continue building and covering all the beauty in your life. Contrastingly if you are warm and kind and have a beautiful light glowing all around you. All the snow will melt away leaving plenty of room for true love mmmmmmmmmm ya.
  ~ Francesca Etheart ~
• At life's twilight, gold and silver do not matter.
  ~ Joseph Ogbonna ~
• Our past, is the only picture that can reflect light upon the path of our future.
  ~ Gilbert Asitibasi ~
• You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
  ~ George Gordon Byron ~
• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
  ~ Ovid ~
• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
  ~ Edmund Spenser ~
• We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• 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 ~
• To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
  ~ Sir Walter Scott ~
• To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
  ~ Sir Walter Scott ~
• This world we live in is but thickened light.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
  ~ Edith Wharton ~
• There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song
  ~ John Burroughs ~
• The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
  ~ Francis William Bourdillon ~
• 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 ~
• The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• 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 ~
• The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
  ~ John Masefield ~
• She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
  ~ Willa Cather ~
• She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
  ~ Hartley Coleridge ~
• She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
  ~ Hartley Coleridge ~
• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• 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 ~
• More light! Give me more light!
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
  ~ John Fletcher ~
• Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
  ~ Alexander Smith ~
• Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
  ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
• It is light grief that can take counsel.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
  ~ Homer ~
• 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 ~
• I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
  ~ Jack Kerouac ~
• I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
  ~ Dame Edith Sitwell ~
• Hath any wronged thee, be bravely revenged. Slight it, and the work?s begun; forgive it, and ?tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• 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 ~
• For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?
  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
• 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 ~
• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
  ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
• Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.
  ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
  ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
• Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
  ~ John Gay ~
• Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
  ~ John Gay ~
• Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
  ~ Thomas Campbell ~
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind.
  ~ Thomas Campbell ~
• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• 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 ~
• Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• 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 ~
• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Pursue what makes you happy and enlighten your knowledge. Not what shatters your character and diminish you in the eyes of others!
  ~ Yogesh V Nayyar ~
• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
  ~ Lauren Conrad ~
• The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
  ~ Stephen Gardiner ~
• There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.
  ~ Josh Hutcherson ~
• The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
  ~ Jeff Bezos ~
• Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.
  ~ Emily Blunt ~