Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Ruskin, John

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Swartz, J.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

12.

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

Chappell, Warren

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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.

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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Rohn, Jim

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Gissing, George Robert

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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Miller, Henry

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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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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 dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

Baldwin, James

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

34.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

35.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Camus, Albert

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Rohn, Jim

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mccay, James T.

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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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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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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Barrow

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Pound, Ezra

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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. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

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

Mansfield, Katherine