Motivational Quotes

Books

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

- Frank Zappa

Best Quotes about Books

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

William Goldman

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esar

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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.

Ralph Novak

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

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Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Josh Lieb

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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

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Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

Paxton Hood

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

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Oh for a book and a shady nook...