There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Amis Sir Kingsley 1922-1995
Lucky Jim
The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
New Atlantis
God's first Creature, which was Light.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St Matthew ch.5 v.16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.
Bourdillon F.W. 1852-1921
Among the Flowers „Light"
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
‘So, we'll go no more a-roving'
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
Chevalier Maurice 1888-1972
(attributed)
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so
dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Dickson Paul
Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
Donne John 1572-1631
„A Lecture in the Shadow"
Love is a growing or full constant light;
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
Fry Christopher 1907-
The dark is light enough.
Fuller Margaret 1810-1850
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
(attributed dying words)
Mehr Licht!
More light!
Haskins Minnie Louise 1875-1957
Desert ‘God Knows'
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a
light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied:
‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That
shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'
Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Volpone
Suns, that set, may rise again;
But if once we lose this light,
‘Tis with us perpentual night.
Longton Stephen c.1150-1228
The ‘Golden Sequence' for Whit Sunday
Come, Holy Spirit, and send out from heaven the beam of your light.
Lollabrigida Gina
The light is better than a plastic surgeon.
Lowell Robert 1917-1977
‘Since 1939'
We feel the machine slipping from our hands
As if someone else were steering;
If we see light at the end of the tunnel,
It's the light of the oncoming train.
Maxwell William
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
Millay Edna St Vincent 1892-1950
A Few Figs From Thistles ‘First Fig'
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.
Milton John 1608-1674
‘Il Penseroso'
Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom,
Far from all resort of mirth,
Save the cricket on the hearth.
Milton John 1608-1674
The Judgement of Martin Bucer
I owe no light or leading received from any
man in the discovery of this truth.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
Long is the way
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand,
Whether I should repent me now of sin
By me done and occasioned, or rejoice
Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring.
Milton John 1608-1674
Sonnet 16 ‘When I consider how my light is spent'
When I consider how my light is spent,
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless.
Morrison Jim 1943-1971
„Light My Fire"
C'mon, baby, light my fire.