Quote: There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Quote: A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Author: Edward P. Morgan
Quote: A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Author: William Styron
Quote: Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Author: Toni Morrison
Quote: A good book has no ending.
Author: R.D. Cumming
Quote: I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Author: Anna Quindlen
Quote: Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Author: Charles W. Eliot
Quote: Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Author: P.J. O'Rourke
Quote: I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
Author: Groucho Marx
Quote: A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Author: Charles Lamb
Quote: I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Author: George Robert Gissing
Quote: A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Quote: There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.
Author: Joe Ryan
Quote: Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Author: William Hazlitt
Quote: My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
Author: Thomas Helm
Quote: A dirty book is rarely dusty.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Author: Paul Sweeney
Quote: A library is thought in cold storage.
Author: Herbert Samuel
Quote: Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Author: Lady Bird Johnson
Quote: A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Author: Franz Kafka
Quote: Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Author: Christopher Morley
Quote: Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Quote: I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Author: Montesquieu
Quote: Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Author: Jessamyn West
Quote: The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Author: E.M. Forster
Quote: To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Author: Kenko Yoshida
Quote: TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
Quote: Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Author: Bern Williams
Quote: How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.
Author: John Aikin
Quote: Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
Author: George Steiner
Quote: In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Quote: Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.
Author: Helen Exley
Quote: There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
Author: Jim Fiebig
Quote: If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Author: Cicero
Quote: Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Quote: A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
Author: Jo Godwin
Quote: Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Quote: Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
Author: François Mauriac
Quote: As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Author: Erma Bombeck
Quote: To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Author: Edmund Burke
Quote: Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
Author: John LeCarre
Quote: Never judge a book by its movie.
Author: J.W. Eagan
Quote: The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Author: Lin Yutang
Quote: Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Author: Richard Steele
Quote: Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
Author: Walter Pater
Quote: A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
Quote: A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Quote: The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.
Author: Lesley Conger
Quote: Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
Author: William Styron
Quote: We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Author: Henry Miller
Quote: Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Author: Jeremy Collier
Quote: Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
Author: William Ewart Gladstone
Quote: I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Quote: This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
Quote: Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Author: Stephen Vincent Benét
Quote: The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Author: Theodore Parker
Quote: If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Quote: That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Quote: A wicked book cannot repent.
Author: Old Proverb
Quote: Books are the best of things, well used. Abused, amng the worst.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Author: Francis Bacon
Quote: Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Quote: A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.
Author: Unknown
Quote: Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.
Author: Forsyth and Rada
Quote: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Author: Groucho Marx
Quote: The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
Author: Andrew Ross
Quote: Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Quote: Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
Author: Augustus Hare
Quote: Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
Author: E. M. Forster
Quote: Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Quote: 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Quote: Literature is the question minus the answer.
Author: Roland Barthes
Quote: Literature is news that stays news.
Author: Ezra Pound
Quote: When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Author: Samuel Lover
Quote: Every man's memory is his private literature.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Quote: What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Author: E. M. Forster
Quote: A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Author: Clifton Fadiman
Quote: A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Author: Italo Calvino
Quote: Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
Author: Jan Morris
Quote: Read books. They are good for us.
Author: Natalie Goldberg
Quote: Books do furnish a room.
Author: Anthony Powell
Quote: Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Author: Anatole France
Quote: A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Author: Cicero
Quote: It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may decide to do without them again.
Author: E. M. Forster
Quote: A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Author: Martin Farquhar Tupper
Quote: No furniture so charming as books.
Author: Rev. Sydney Smith
Quote: A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Quote: Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Quote: A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Quote: The proper study of mankind is books.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Quote: Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.
Author: John Keats
Quote: If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: If you never read you will never know the world around you.
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