Candles

thumb|right|Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, And the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ Gautama Buddha Candles are a traditional method of providing illumination, now superseded for most purposes by electric lightbulbs. Quotes thumb|right|alt=Quotation|Tis nothing but a magic shadow-show,Played in a box whose candle is the sun. ~ Edward Fitzgerald thumb|right|alt=Quotation|The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: the morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle. ~ Benjamin Franklin thumb|right|alt=Quotation|I believe that it is better to light one candle than to promise a million light bulbs. ~ Stephen Harper thumb|right|alt=Quotation|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 thumb|right|alt=Quotation| Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,but life, life is melting downlike a candle that is flickering around. ~ Suman Pokhrel thumb|right|alt=Quotation|Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back,When gold and silver becks me to come on. ~ William Shakespeare thumb|right|With all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier, quoting or parhaphrasing Abraham Davenport Alphabetized by author All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, And the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Gautama Buddha (attributed), Sutta Nipata Some say, that Signor Bononcini,Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;Others aver, to him, that HandelIs scarcely fit to hold a candle.Strange! that such high dispute should be'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. John Byrom, On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini. They say rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles. George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004) I wonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles - because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies! Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter 3. "If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out - bang! - just like a candle!" Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 4. The candles all grew up to the ceiling, looking something like a bed of rushes with fireworks at the top. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 9. His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends" Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (1874), Fit the First. No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out. When someone said "One never hears of Baldwin nowadays - he might as well be dead". Winston Churchill, recorded in Harold Nicolson's diary for 17 August 1950. I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought. Abraham Davenport, in response to a call for adjourning the Connecticut State Council because of fears that New England's Dark Day might be a sign that the Last Judgment was approaching, as quoted by Timothy Dwight, in Connecticut Historical Collectons 2d ed (1836) compiled by John Warner Barber, p. 403. 'Tis nothing but a magic shadow-show,Played in a box whose candle is the sun Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1st ed, 1859), stanza 46. The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: the morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758), Chapter "On Virtue, Vice, God, And Faith". I believe that it is better to light one candle than to promise a million light bulbs. Stephen Harper, as quoted in The New York Times (24 January 2006) Then, she lit up a candle and she showed me the way. Don Henley, "Hotel California" (1976), Hotel California, Asylum Records He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson (13 August 1813) ME 13:333. And it seems to me you lived your lifeLike a candle in the wind Elton John, Candle in the Wind. It is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew light at Calais. Samuel Johnson, of Thomas Sheridan's influence on the English language; reported in Boswell's Life of Johnson (28 July 1763). We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as (I trust) shall never be put out. Hugh Latimer, just before his execution by burning; quoted by John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (1570) p. 1937. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 3. On the Coast of CoromandelWhere the early pumpkins blow,In the middle of the woodsLived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò.Two old chairs, and half a candle,One old jug without a handle,These were all his worldly goods Edward Lear, The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò. 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, "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920). This ambiance of candlelight reminds of nights that traveled its way, in entangled embrace of yours and mine. Suman Pokhrel, A Reminiscent Candlelight Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,but life, life is melting downlike a candle that is flickering around. Suman Pokhrel, A Birthday Greeting to Myself Death is shaping up slowly and quietlybut life, life is melting downlike a candle that is flickering all night. Suman Pokhrel, A Birthday Greeting to Myself The light that shines at the wick of a tallow candle is made of fire and related to the light of sacred lamps. Grace Rhys, The Quest of the Ideal (New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1913), p. 37. Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back,When gold and silver becks me to come on. William Shakespeare, King John, III, iii, line 12. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, scene v. Thus hath the candle singed the moth. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, II, ix, line 79. In winter I get up at night,And dress by yellow candle-light.In summer quite the other wayI have to go to bed by day. Robert Louis Stevenson, In Winter I get up at Night. The candle by which she had been reading the book filled with trouble and deceit, sorrow and evil, flared up with a brighter light, illuminating for her everything that before had been enshrouded in darkness, flickered, grew dim, and went out forever. Leo Tolstoy trans. Rosemary Edmonds, Anna Karenina, part 7, chapter 31. A single candle can lit a thousand candles without losing anything. [...] Let us be like those shining candles [...] benefitting all sentient beings. Thích Nhật Từ, Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008), 1741893909. Denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, and proves a popular temptation. Yet it is far better to light a candle than curse the darkness. William Lonsdale Watkinson, "The Invincible Strategy" in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons (1907) "This well may be The Day of Judgment which the world awaits; But be it so or not, I only know My present duty, and my Lord's command To occupy till He come. So at the post Where He hath set me in His providence, I choose, for one, to meet Him face to face, — No faithless servant frightened from my task, But ready when the Lord of the harvest calls; And therefore, with all reverence, I would say, Let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles." And they brought them in. John Greenleaf Whittier, quoting or paraphrasing Abraham Davenport in his poem "Abraham Davenport" (May 1866). How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-1728), Satire vii, Line 97. External links Candle candle Category:Themes