Lamp Quotes

324 quotes by 254 authors

On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To… — Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. — Antonio Porchia
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the… — Steven Strait
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the… — Terry Pratchett
Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.… — Pope Francis
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. — Friedrich Schiller
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those… — Hannah More
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the… — Stephen Fry
Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of… — Massimo Vignelli
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. — James Russell Lowell
If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts. — George H. W. Bush
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the… — Franklin P. Adams
Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth. — Gautama Buddha
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the… — Gautama Buddha
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer… — Gautama Buddha
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge… — Gautama Buddha
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. — Gautama Buddha

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254 authors contributed a total of 324 Lamp Quotes, led by these top contributors: