Running Lamps

Famous quotes containing the words running and/or lamps:

    ‘Tis with my mind
    As with the tide swelled up unto his height,
    That makes a still-stand, running neither way.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)