bores quotes by MARIA EDGEWORTH-1465710414
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
bores quotes by DON MARQUIS-1465701790
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Books Quotes by HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE-1465700340
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.
Books Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1465655227
'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.
Books Quotes by HOLBROOK JACKSON-1465633037
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 h
Books Quotes by WILLIAM STYRON-1465631699
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
Books Quotes by DOUGLAS JERROLD-1465629333
A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.
Books Quotes by HOLBROOK JACKSON-1465627662
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Books Quotes by W.E. CHANNING-1465625972
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Books Quotes by G.E. WOODBERRY-1465622998
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.
Books Quotes by ROSE MACAULAY-1465615729
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
Books Quotes by SUTTON ELBERT GRIGGS-1465542044
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
Books Quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1465535627
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Books Quotes by WOODROW WILSON-1465534157
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
Books Quotes by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU-1465494930
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Books Quotes by JEREMY COLLIER-1465492256
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
Books Quotes by JOHN WILSON-1465491047
O for a Booke and a shdie nooke, eyther in-a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about. Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.
Books Quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1465453524
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.
Books Quotes by FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER-1465450977
That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Books Quotes by ANATOLE FRANCE-1465449745
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
Books Quotes by CHINESE SAYING-1465447946
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
Books Quotes by WALTER PATER-1465446455
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
Books Quotes by JUDAH IBN TIBBON-1465365902
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.
Books Quotes by CHARLES KINGSLEY-1465364241
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Books Quotes by E.M. FORSTER-1465320821
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.
Books Quotes by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES-1465278494
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Books Quotes by AUGUSTUS HARE-1465277068
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.
Books Quotes by OSCAR WILDE-1465275377
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
Books Quotes by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT-1465191482
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Books Quotes by J.N. LARNED-1465145735
How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it!
Books Quotes by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM-1465134960
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Books Quotes by HELEN E. HAINES-1465124275
From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.
Books Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1465122986
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Books Quotes by AUGUSTINE BIRRELL-1465121685
An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Books Quotes by LORD CHESTERFIELD-1465120159
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books Quotes by ARABIC PROVERB-1465115333
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
Books Quotes by STRICKLAND GILLILAN(THANKS-1465113444
You may have tangible wealth untold;Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me.
Books Quotes by LAURENCE STERNE-1465111660
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
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