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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart. -- Kabir
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. -- Lori Copeland
I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night. -- Frank Carson
As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love. -- Lori Copeland
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit. -- Tertullian
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. -- George MacDonald
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. -- Madonna Ciccone
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. -- Jane Porter
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. -- Andrew Lang
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. -- Patrick Henry
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. -- George Stephenson
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one. -- Edward Walker
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. -- Mother Teresa
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. -- Henry Ward Beecher
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. -- Joshua Sylvester
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. -- Rebecca West
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
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. -- Hannah More
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo. -- Brad Pitt
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on. -- Amanda Hocking
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. -- David Ogilvy
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker. -- Drew Barrymore
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. -- Gilbert Parker
Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty. -- Kevin McCloud
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. -- Cherie Lunghi
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. -- Jane Gardam
Within my heart is the lamp of love, And that is day! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one. -- Edward Walker
Aladdin's lamp is mine. -- Ira Gershwin
Courage is adversity's lamp. -- Luc de Clapiers
Be a lamp unto yourself. -- Gautama Buddha
That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations. -- Mitt Romney
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. -- Lord Byron
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun. -- Robert Herrick
Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance -- Dalai Lama
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil. -- William Shenstone
Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance -- Dalai Lama
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil. -- Bonaventure
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post. -- H. L. Mencken
Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts. -- Jeffrey Robinson
A man without patience is a lamp without oil. -- Andres Segovia
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. -- Rumi
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. -- Ovid
Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Give me a lamp so I can find the day. -- Frank Herbert
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. -- Friedrich Schiller
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye. -- John Dryden
Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Thy word O Lord is a lamp that lights my path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand. -- Idries Shah
The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us. -- Origen
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. -- Antonio Porchia
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning. -- Albert Schweitzer
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. -- James Russell Lowell
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light -- Annie Besant
If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp. -- Mencius
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. -- Mother Teresa
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. -- Romano Prodi
For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day. -- Richard Francis Burton
I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence. -- Bayazid Bastami
The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. -- Isabel Allende
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp. -- Plutarch
Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. -- Charles Kingsley
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day. -- William Falconer
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If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. -- Gautama Buddha
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. -- Philip James Bailey
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future. -- Max Lucado
The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one -- Saraha
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. -- Cormac McCarthy
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life? -- Michel Foucault
This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body. -- Kanye West
A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. -- Andrew Lang
The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness -- Barack Obama
Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp. -- Anne Sexton
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp. -- Dean Koontz
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. -- John Burroughs
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood. -- Thomas Jefferson
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion! -- Gautama Buddha
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light. -- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out. -- Margot Asquith
In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it. -- Mother Teresa
If we want to be seen in a different light, we must change the lamp within. -- Terry Crouson
He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp -- Robin Williams
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame. -- Rabindranath Tagore
To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness. -- Alfred Korzybski
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. -- Gautama Buddha
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. -- Sophie Swetchine
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. -- Homer
Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before. -- Juliet Marillier
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. -- Cyril Connolly
Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive. -- Aristotle Onassis
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. -- Andrew Lang
If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts. -- George H. W. Bush
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp. -- Elvis Presley
Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness -- Rabindranath Tagore
The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times. -- Charles Spurgeon
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." -- Diogenes
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human . -- Diogenes
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. -- Matt Smith
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? -- Faraaz Kazi

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