Motivational Quotes

Books

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Books

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

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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

Robertson Davies

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

Upton Sinclair

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

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

Frank Zappa

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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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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

Bell Hooks

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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

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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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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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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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

Sir Richard Steele

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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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Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

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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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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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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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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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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading 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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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Mark Twain

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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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

Evan Esar

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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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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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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

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

Marie de Sevigne

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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