Candle Quotes

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.
Buddha

Life, Happiness, Single

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

Life, Men, Live

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

Good, Far, Naughty

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

Light, Darkness, Curse

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

Birthday, Happy, Down

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

Two, Light, Mirror

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

Old, Getting, Cake

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

Wanted, Cake, Store

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.
George Carlin

Work, Night, Made

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.
Milton Friedman

History, Free, Far

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!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night, Friends, Light

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Flame, Blowing, Nirvana

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.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Light, Lovely

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?
Ralph Marston

Time, Children, Nothing

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell

Light, Reputation, Looks

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward

Learning, Curiosity

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
James Keller

Nothing, Another, Loses

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.
William Penn

Mind, Reason, Reading

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Small, Company, Loves

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 make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo

Birthday, Time, Wisdom

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

Able, Dinner, Flying

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

Love, Power, Sun

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.
Laurence Sterne

Great, End, Fire

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens

God, Dark, High

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.
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Good, Health

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

Woman, Timeless, Primal

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
Bear Grylls

Feeling, Give, Before

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.
Peter Benenson

Prison, Shot, Failed

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.
Russell Pearce

Liberty, Few, Kept

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
Cat Deeley

Birthday, Hate, Cake

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