Candle Quotes
631 quotes by 469 authors
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The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
— Benjamin Franklin
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When the candles are out all women are fair.
— Plutarch
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The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to…
— John Arbuthnot
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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 kind…
— Michael Faraday
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You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or…
— Michael Faraday
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If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
— Mark McCormack
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As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
— William Bradford
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We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
— Robert H. Shaffer
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I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned…
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.
— Lizette Woodworth Reese
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That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it…
— Richard Baxter
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Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a…
— Patti Davis
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'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
— Jeph Jacques
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Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But…
— Ralph Levy
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
— Unknown Author
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He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
— Unknown Author
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
— Therese of Lisieux
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I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on…
— Laurie David
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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
— Fred Rogers
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Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only…
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Candle Quotes
469 authors contributed a total of 631 Candle Quotes, led by these top contributors: