Aladdin's Lamp Quotes

• Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

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  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Spring   Science   Past  

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• It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

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  Robin Williams

  Inspiration   Lamps   Baths  

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• Aladdin's lamp is mine.

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  Ira Gershwin

  Lamps   Aladdin's Lamp   Mines  

  "Song: 'Long Ago And Far Away'". 1944.

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• It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

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  Mark Twain

  Lying   Greatness   Land  

  Mark Twain, Arthur Grove Day (1975). “Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii”, p.274, University of Hawaii Press

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• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

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  Patrick Henry

  Feet   Lamps   Aladdin's Lamp  

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

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  Lord Byron

  Money   Lamps   Aladdin's Lamp  

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2206, Delphi Classics

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• When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

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  James Russell Lowell

  Friends   Boys   Lamps  

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.387

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• Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

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  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity   Imagination   Creative  

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1942). “How to Think Up”

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• If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

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  Gladys Taber

  June   Giving   Wish  

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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