Lamp Quotes

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Patrick Henry

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

William Cowper

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.

William Falconer

Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

David Brewster

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tertullian

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

Stephen Fry

Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp. (Roger Ebert)

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Emma Lazarus

Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone's activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it's all bliss, it's not necessary for the people to suffer.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If I can find out God, then I shall find Him, If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly, Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.

Sara Teasdale

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

Maggie Stiefvater

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

David Byrne

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Yoshida Kenkō

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Plutarch

Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth
Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning.
And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth,
There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

James Russell Lowell

Listen: The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.

Kurt Vonnegut

And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return.

Isaac Watts

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

Diogenes of Sinope

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