55 Candle Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Light Mirror Ways Spreading Reflects Candle Two

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

Buy Birthday Cake Got Candle Store Wanted Holder

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

Learning Curiosity Candle

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 People Free Unleashed Way System Enterprise Record Free Enterprise Free Enterprise System Absolutely Clear Crystal Alternative Discovered Lot Improving Candle Hold Ordinary Ordinary People Far Productive Activities

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 You Wind Looking Nothing Tree Waves Spent Park Limbs Doing Quiet Blowing Sitting Candle Just Children Pond Sea Flickering Moment Last Watching Playing Last Time

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 Denial Way Finding Some One-Way Gives Both Suppose Knowingly Been Often Candle Ends Burning Lovely

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

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Bill Bryson

Good World Light Single Before Dim Hundredth Light Bulb How Bulb Provides Forget Candle Just Barely Painfully Electricity Illumination

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

Man Only Small Candle Burning Loves Company Even

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 Way Those Kidnapped Tortured Disappeared Failed Were Candle Burns Us Shot Rescue Who Whom

My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me. Vera Wang

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride. Ginger Rogers

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I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' Al Seckel

Saying Darkness Better Light Old Active Society Beneficial Approach Impact Pursued Part Along Perhaps Always Been Than Candle Movement Curse Personally Meaningful Create Belief

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. Alastair Campbell

I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god. Christine McVie

God Kind He Always Shining Green Did Candle Mean Peter

The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen. Dan Gilroy

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