Candle Quotes

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

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

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

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!

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

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

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

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

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

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.

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.