candle (n.)
- ark
- bambino
- beads
- censer
- chaplet
- cross
- crucifix
- cruet
- dip
- fire
- flame
- flux
- icon
- illuminant
- intensity
- lamp
- lantern
- light
- lumen
- lumeter
- luminant
- luminary
- lux
- match
- matzo
- menorah
- mezuzah
- mikvah
- monstrance
- moon
- ostensorium
- pax
- photon
- pyx
- quantum
- rood
- rosary
- rushlight
- shofar
- stars
- sun
- tabernacle
- tallith
- taper
- thurible
- torch
- urceole
- veronica
candle (v.)
I light my candle from their torches.
Some say, compar'd to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.
Some say, compar'd to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Must I hold a candle to my shames?
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.
