Motivational Quotes

Books

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Books

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

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

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

Robertson Davies

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

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

Cicero

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with'em, then we grow out of'em and leave'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Ralph Novak

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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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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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

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

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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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

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

Christopher Morley

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

William Goldman

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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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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

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

Groucho Marx

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There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

Anna Quindlen

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

Evan Esar

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

Mark Twain

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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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

Harold Bloom

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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

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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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

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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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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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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

Dame Rose Macaulay

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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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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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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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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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

Upton Sinclair

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot