Candle Quotes

631 Candle quotes by 469 unique authors

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping… — Ginger Rogers
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's… — Rene Russo
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. — Marilyn vos Savant
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.' — Jerry Seinfeld
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. — William Shakespeare
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… — Laurence Sterne
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. — Wallace Stevens
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. — Rabindranath Tagore
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! — Tracey Ullman
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. — Tim Vine
There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find… — Rufus Wainwright
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. — William Arthur Ward
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' — Steven Wright
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays… — William Shakespeare
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of… — Jack Kerouac
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. — Ursula K. Le Guin
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having… — Lewis Carroll
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It… — Gregory Maguire
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. — Philip Pullman
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The… — Richard Dawkins
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames… — Dave Barry
What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least… — Terry Pratchett

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