Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Books - reading

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Carter, Angela

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Disney, Walt

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Brooke, Rupert

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

Byron, Lord

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Socrates

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Thurber, James

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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Miller, Henry

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Benjamin, Walter

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Barrow

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert