Making Light of Christmas

Truths kindle light for truths. - Lucretius

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash. - Simmons

It is easy to be heavy; it is hard to be light. - G K Chesterton

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. - James Keller

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch. - David A. Schmaltz

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. - Charles Barkley

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. - Robin Williams

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light. - Garth von Buchholz

How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? How many can you afford? - Blanche Knott

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Unknown

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt. - Margaret Deland

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. - Earl Nightingale

Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson

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

You don't need a floodlight to bring light into the darkness - a single flame will do. - Clare Josa

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. - Le Corbusier

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. - Bono

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. - Christopher Walken

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. - Robert Kirby

Fathers are like a lighthouse - when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light. - Unknown

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton

The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.' - Shel Silverstein

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? - Jacques Plante

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. - Matthew 5:14-16

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

If you are lonely, dim all lights and put on a horror movie. After a while it won't feel like you are alone anymore. - Unknown

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way. - Unknown

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T S Eliot

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. - Muhammad Ali

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! - Edna St Vincent Millay

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. - Gaius S. Crispus

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. - Joe-kster

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. - Albert Schweitzer