Candles

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, And the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"Some say, that Signor Bononcini, Compared to Handel's a mere ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange! that such high dispute should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee."

"They say rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles."

"I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles - because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!"

"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out - bang! - just like a candle!"

"The candles all grew up to the ceiling, looking something like a bed of rushes with fireworks at the top."

"His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends""

"No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out."

"I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought."

"'Tis nothing but a magic shadow-show, Played in a box whose candle is the sun"

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: the morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle."

"I believe that it is better to light one candle than to promise a million light bulbs."

"Then, she lit up a candle and she showed me the way."

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

"And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind"

"It is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew light at Calais."

"We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out."

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow."

"On the Coast of Coromandel Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò. Two old chairs, and half a candle, One old jug without a handle, These were all his worldly goods"

"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."

"This ambiance of candlelight reminds of nights that traveled its way, in entangled embrace of yours and mine."

"Every moment age is creeping up stealthily, but life, life is melting down like a candle that is flickering around."

"Death is shaping up slowly and quietly but life, life is melting down like a candle that is flickering all night."

"The light that shines at the wick of a tallow candle is made of fire and related to the light of sacred lamps."

"Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on."

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."

"Thus hath the candle singed the moth."

"In winter I get up at night, And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day."

"The candle by which she had been reading the book filled with trouble and deceit, sorrow and evil, flared up with a brighter light, illuminating for her everything that before had been enshrouded in darkness, flickered, grew dim, and went out forever."

"A single candle can lit a thousand candles without losing anything. [...] Let us be like those shining candles [...] benefitting all sentient beings."

"Denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, and proves a popular temptation. Yet it is far better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

""This well may be The Day of Judgment which the world awaits; But be it so or not, I only know My present duty, and my Lord's command To occupy till He come. So at the post Where He hath set me in His providence, I choose, for one, to meet Him face to face, — No faithless servant frightened from my task, But ready when the Lord of the harvest calls; And therefore, with all reverence, I would say, Let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles." And they brought them in."

"How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun"