Small Candle

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or candle:

“I have seen the impassioned curbed with a small bit.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head—no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)