Candle Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

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.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

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.'

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

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.'

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning 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!