Making Light of Christmas

A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare

He lights up a room when he leaves it. - Henny Youngman

What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. - Joan Rivers

What's done in the dark will be paraded in the light. - Charles Wynn

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

If we shouldn't eat at night, why is there a light in the fridge? - Unknown

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. - JRR Tolkien

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

There was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on. - Rod Serling

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. - David Lee Roth

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

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

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

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. - G.C. Lichtenberg

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

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster

We have been too long in darkness. Once already we have been in the light, and we want it again. - Alexander Dubcek

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. - B.K. Iyengar

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

The next woman who gets hold of me is gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars. - Jack Nicholson

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

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. - Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey

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

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms. - Terence McKenna

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind. - Johnny Knoxville

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds. - Terry Goodkind

If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life. - Will Advise