Books Quotes by LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH-1464326715
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Books Quotes by E.M. FORSTER-1464325512
I suggest that 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.
Books Quotes by CHRISTOPHER MORLEYPARNASSUS ON WHEELS-1464280458
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.
Books Quotes by CHARLES DE SECONDAT-1464239719
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Books Quotes by ANDREW ROSS-1464237931
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
Books Quotes by ABRAHAM LINCOLN-1464197884
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Books Quotes by FRANZ KAFKA-1464196463
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Books Quotes by OSCAR WILDE-1464195142
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Books Quotes by PAUL SWEENEY-1464191585
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.
Books Quotes by WILLIAM JAMES-1464187742
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I needresistanceto celebrate!
Books Quotes by THOMAS HELM-1464162220
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
Books Quotes by WILLIAM HAZLITT-1464160953
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Books Quotes by GEORGE ROBERT GISSING-1464157644
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.
Books Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1464156073
Let books be your dining table,And you shall be full of delightsLet them be your mattressAnd you shall sleep restful nights.
Books Quotes by CHARLES LAMB-1464154782
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.
Books Quotes by MARK TWAIN-1464153542
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Books Quotes by GROUCHO MARX-1464108832
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.
Books Quotes by GROUCHO MARX-1464085697
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Books Quotes by P.J. O'ROURKE-1464084236
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Books Quotes by CHARLES W. ELIOT-1464082645
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books Quotes by ANNA QUINDLEN-1464079072
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.
Books Quotes by TONI MORRISON-1464076014
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Books Quotes by FORSYTH AND RADA-1464074798
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.
Books Quotes by G.K. CHESTERTON-1464073545
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
Books Quotes by WILLIAM STYRON-1464071929
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Books Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1464070608
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
Books Quotes by JAMES BRYCE-1464068937
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
Books Quotes by EDWARD P. MORGAN-1464061135
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.
boldness quotes by BALTASAR GRACIAN-1464015571
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
boldness quotes by THEODORE ROOSEVELT-1464001352
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
boldness quotes by OSCAR WILDE-1463998260
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
boldness quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1463995429
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
boldness quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1463994088
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
boldness quotes by FRANCIS BACON-1463987871
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
boldness quotes by MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE-1463986163
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
boldness quotes by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU-1463942062
But the fruit that can fall without shakingIndeed is too mellow for me.
boldness quotes by MACHIAVELLI-1463939139
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
body quotes by ROBERT C. PEALE-1463937708
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
body quotes by CHARLES CALEB COLTON-1463935859
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
body quotes by CARRIE LATET-1463931561
Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.
body quotes by CANDEA CORE-STARKE-1463928356
I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.
body quotes by MARIA MONTESSORI-1463926574
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
body quotes by ZACHARTY BERCOVITZ-1463925013
Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
body quotes by C.ASTRID WEBER-1463923382
If your inner energy is misdirected, so will your whole life be.
body quotes by FREDERICK ALEXANDER LINDEMANN-1463921113
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.
body quotes by JASON LOVE-1463911372
Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?
body quotes by GEORGE CARLIN-1463909685
I use the word "fat." I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-b
body quotes by ASTRID ALAUDA-1463908026
The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.
body quotes by KEN WILBUR-1463906355
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
body quotes by W.H. AUDEN-1463905115
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
body quotes by MARTIN H. FISCHER-1463903384
We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.
body quotes by FROM "THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR-1463902029
Most guys aren't that picky. They may have quicker reflexes around large breasts, but they need more to keep them interested. We know plenty of women whose sex appeal makes their breasts exactly the right size.
Books Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1463900782
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.
Books Quotes by KENKO YOSHIDA-1463897439
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.
Books Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1463896030
A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.
body quotes by BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTANELLE-1463887489
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
body quotes by HERMANN M. BIGGS-1463884441
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
body quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1463856472
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
body quotes by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS-1463855181
What fools indeed we morals areTo lavish care upon a Car,With ne'er a bit of time to seeAbout our own machinery!
body quotes by MARCEL PROUST-1463844756
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
body quotes by PABLO CASALS-1463841974
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
body quotes by BERTHA STUART DYMENT-1463796276
Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.
body quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1463723029
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
body quotes by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW-1463679913
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
body quotes by MIMI GUARNERI-1463678572
The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.
body quotes by MARTIN H. FISCHER-1463643345
Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.
body quotes by AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE AND JULIUS CHARLES HARE-1463640654
The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.
body quotes by SAMUEL BUTLER-1463639160
The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.
body quotes by ALDOUS HUXLEY-1463635103
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
body quotes by WILLIAM OSLER-1463585189
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
body quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSONTHE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON-->-1463508281
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
body quotes by LLEWELYN POWERS-1463506883
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
body quotes by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-1463488677
Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.
body quotes by B.K.S. IYENGAR-1463467509
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
body quotes by MONTAIGNE-1463462042
Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
body quotes by IRENE CLAREMONT DE CASTILLEJO-1463460682
Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.
body quotes by JULIEN OFFROY DE LA METTRIE-1463417445
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
body quotes by THOMAS HARDYTHE LATER YEARS OF THOMAS HARDY-1463389113
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?
body quotes by KATHERINE MANSFIELD-1463329964
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
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