“Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang, 'Happy Birthday.”
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American actor and author 1955Related quotes
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Roald Dahl book Boy
Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
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Variant: 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.
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
Edna St. Vincent Millay book A Few Figs from Thistles
Misattributed
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Don't Let It Bring You Down
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)
“Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
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