Quotations About / On: LIGHT

  • 11.
    Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
    (Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854-1921), Anglo-American mother of Winston Churchill. "Friendship," Small Talk on Big Subjects (1916).)
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  • 12.
    Come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
    (Apocrypha. 2 Esdras, 14:25.)
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  • 13.
    She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.
    (Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician. quoted in New York Times (Nov. 8, 1962). Comment on learning of Eleanor Roosevelt's death. Stevenson was quoting the motto of the Christopher Society, "It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness." According to Brewer's Quotations, ed. Nigel Rees (1994), this in turn is a Chinese proverb.)
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  • 14.
    Civilisation—a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
    (Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), British broadcaster. Quoted in New Society (London, Oct. 6, 1983).)
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  • 15.
    The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
    (Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXVIII, 27.)
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  • 16.
    Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
    (Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator. Speech, May 21, 1935, Reichstag, Berlin.)
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  • 17.
    Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
    (Stefan Zweig (18811942), Austrian writer. Die Welt von Gestern (The World of Yesterday), p. 385, trans. by Marion Sonnenfeld, S. Fischer Verlag (1955).)
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  • 18.
    Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.
    (Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (c. 348-405), Roman poet. Peristephanon, X, 593.)
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  • 19.
    The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
    (Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), British philosopher. Leviathan, pt. 1, ch. 8 (1651).)
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  • 20.
    They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
    (Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, p. 57a, Grove Press (1954). "They" refers to women who become mothers.)
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