Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

- Chappell, Warren

Best Quotes about Books - reading

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Whitman, Walt

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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

Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

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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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko, Yoshida

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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

Tupper, Martin

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

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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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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Disney, Walt

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

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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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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark

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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Byron, Lord

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Twain, Mark

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Hugo, Victor

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Hadas, Moses

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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