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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. -- George William Curtis
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. -- Walter Savage Landor
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. -- John Milton
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. -- Virginia Woolf
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness. -- David Bromstad
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. -- Hu Shih
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. -- John Lasseter
The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out- -- Emily Dickinson
Lamps are different, but light is the same. -- Rumi
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. -- Charles Spurgeon
Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. -- Lord Byron
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. -- Tertullian
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. -- Mother Teresa
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants. -- Heidi Julavits
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer. -- Kate Spade
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. -- Jane Porter
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. -- Cyril Connolly
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. -- Patrick Henry
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. -- Rabindranath Tagore
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. -- Andrew Lang
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. -- Edward Grey
My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside. -- Rachel Zoe
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. -- Henry Timrod
One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants. -- Susanna Clarke
For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman! -- Susan Vreeland
Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives. -- Alan Huffman
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
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
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera. -- Erland Josephson
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
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. -- Mary Antin
During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had. -- Laird Barron
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
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. -- Frank Gehry
People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely. -- Joanna Lumley
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
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Our hearts are lamps for ever burning... -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes oil to keep the lamps burning. -- Mother Teresa
A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
God is the electricity and we are the lamps. -- Marianne Williamson
The evening of life brings with it its lamps. -- Joseph Joubert
Light that is One though the lamps be many. -- Robin Williamson
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. -- William Shakespeare
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us. -- Catherine McAuley
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it. -- Joseph Joubert
Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness? -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves. -- Gautama Buddha
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels? -- William Golding
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps. -- Mao Zedong
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight. -- Edgar Degas
The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps. -- Wasif Ali Wasif
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. -- Edward Grey
We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed. -- Justin Bieber
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. -- Thomas Carlyle
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things. -- Rumi
And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town. -- Frank Dempster Sherman
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. -- Alberto Manguel
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded. -- Henry David Thoreau
In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge. -- Gautama Buddha
Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. -- William Golding
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone. -- Oscar Wilde
A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon. -- Joan Rivers
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house. -- Moderata Fonte
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. -- Herman Melville
Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. -- Diane Johnson
Tahtahta-ha-ha' clattered the wheels. A lamp outside the window nodded to him. Another. A third. The lamps ceased to wink. Night without winking clung to the windows.("Adam") -- Andrei Bely
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. -- Samuel Johnson
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine. -- Ernest Dowson
What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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
Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps. -- Kenny Werner
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away. -- Anna Akhmatova
On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining. -- Robert Greene
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. -- Anthony Trollope
There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other. -- Rumi
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen. -- Anthony Trollope
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy. -- Peter Shaffer
The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night. -- Edwin Way Teale

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