Books Quotes by LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH-1465796963
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Books Quotes by LORD CHESTERFIELD-1465748850
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.
Books Quotes by HOLBROOK JACKSON-1465744509
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.
bores quotes by LEMONY SNICKET-1465743276
Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.
bores quotes by FRANCOIS-1465712209
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
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.
Books Quotes by GREY LIVINGSTON-1465108415
I like intellectual reading. It's to my mind what fiber is to my body.
Books Quotes by J. SWARTZ-1465061492
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Books Quotes by JOHN RUSKIN-1465060252
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
Books Quotes by S.M. CROTHERS-1465050733
From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.
Books Quotes by ANDRE MAUROIS-1465047851
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
Books Quotes by EDMUND BURKE-1465030986
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Books Quotes by AUGUSTINE BIRRELL-1465025337
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Books Quotes by FRANCESCO PETRARCH-1465021688
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
Books Quotes by SAMUEL BUTLER-1465020057
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Books Quotes by ROSS MACDONALD-1465018776
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Books Quotes by SHERRI CHASIN CALVO-1465013596
If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.
Books Quotes by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER-1464980158
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
Books Quotes by HENRY WARD BEECHER-1464978375
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
Books Quotes by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW-1464976863
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books.
Books Quotes by WILLIAM LYON PHELPS-1464972822
I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Books Quotes by ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGEROBSERVER-1464969098
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.
Books Quotes by FRANCOIS MAURIAC-1464942535
"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.
Books Quotes by GILBERT HIGHET-1464934254
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
Books Quotes by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING-1464857397
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Books Quotes by HOWARD PYLE-1464849231
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
Books Quotes by MARINA TSVETAEVA-1464847780
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Books Quotes by THOMAS CARLYLE-1464799421
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Books Quotes by JOHN LYLY-1464798140
Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
Books Quotes by CHARLES LAMB-1464787174
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Books Quotes by JOHN LECARRE-1464756552
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
Books Quotes by HENRY WARD BEECHER-1464712196
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
Books Quotes by FRANCIS BACON-1464690980
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Books Quotes by CLIFTON FADIMAN-1464677598
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more inyouthan was there before.
Books Quotes by WASHINGTON IRVING-1464675752
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
Books Quotes by JESSE LEE BENNETT-1464674122
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Books Quotes by HENRY WARD BEECHER-1464604202
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1464588634
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.
Books Quotes by CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS-1464541976
A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
Books Quotes by MARK TWAIN-1464535900
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Books Quotes by ELBERT HUBBARD-1464533540
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Books Quotes by JIM FIEBIG-1464531839
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
Books Quotes by HELEN EXLEY-1464530485
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."
Books Quotes by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL-1464511962
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Books Quotes by STEPHANE MALLARME-1464450052
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Books Quotes by GEORGE STEINER-1464444112
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
Books Quotes by JOHN AIKIN-1464367785
To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list.
Books Quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1464331736
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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