Appearance Quote by Anonymous

“He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe…

— P.G. Wodehouse

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

— Rumi

Man is a being in search of meaning.

— Plato

Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living…

— Michael Faraday

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

— Eric Hoffer

Man's best candle is his understanding.

— James Howell

This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and…

— Edgar Lee Masters

“Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple…

— Anonymous

Man - a being in search of meaning.

— Plato

After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there…

— Anonymous

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

— H. L. Mencken

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson