Candle Quotes

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

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!

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

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

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.