LIGHTNING QUOTES III

quotations about lightning

Lightning quote

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

FLAMMARION

attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12


To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,
Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Poetical Works of John Dryden

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It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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Heat lightning prowls, pranks the mountain horizon like
Memory. I follow the soundless flicker,
As ridge after ridge, as outline of peak after peak,
Is momentarily defined in the
Pale wash, the rose-flush, of distance.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

"Heat Lightning", The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren

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Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

SENECA

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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In the dark clouds the sharp flashes of impulsive lightning are born.

ELIS WYN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

"Interview: Carlos Ruiz Zafon", The Scotsman, Jun. 13, 2010

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They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

CLINT EASTWOOD

attributed, The Quote Books: Seeds of Wisdom on Every Subject

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When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.

JENNIFER BOSWORTH

Struck


So Lightning says to Mud,
"What would happen if I struck your blood?"
And Mud says, "Brother,
It would hurt,
And make me the mother
Of every living thing.
But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt
Until you burn me a ring."

SHERMAN ALEXIE

"Creation Story", Mudlark Flash, 2011


The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


The flash at midnight!--'twas a light
That gave the blind a moment's sight,
Then sunk in tenfold gloom;
Loud, deep, and long the thunder broke,
The deaf ear instantly awoke,
Then closed as in the tomb:
An angel might have pass'd my bed,
Sounded the trump of GOD, and fled.

JAMES MONTGOMERY

"Winter Lightning", Poetical Works of James Montgomery

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The tidings, to our world ossicious sent,
Through Albion's isles on wing of lightning went.

WILLIAM STEVENSON

"On the Death of the Reverend Mr. James Hervey", Original Poems on Several Subjects


Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

FLAMMARION

attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12


The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

EVAN ESAR

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Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth;
And ere a man can say--Behold!
The jaws of darkness devour it up.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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