“I went to the store to bye a candle holder. They didn't have one so I got a cake.”
Mitch Hedberg
“You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out."”
Jerry Seinfeld
“Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.”
The Midrash
“We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
Wallace Stevens
“At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.”
John Newcombe
“I had to have two cakes because I had so many candles. That really hit hard.”
Ray Brown
“It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley