Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Secondat, Charles de

Best Quotes about Books - reading

The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

Kingsley, Charles

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Fuller, Margaret

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

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

Byron, Lord

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Carey, Joyce

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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

Tupper, Martin

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fuentes, Carlos

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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The book you don't read won't help.

Rohn, Jim

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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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.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Harington, John

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

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

McKenna, Richard

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Wells, Carolyn

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Penn, William

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American