Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Books - reading

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

Byron, Lord

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

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jackson, Holbrook

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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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.

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Gibbon, Edward

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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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 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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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Johnson

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Lamb, Charles

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Eagleton, Terry

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

Faulkner, William

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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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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Mencken, H. L.

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

West, Jessamyn

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

Byron, Lord

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

Trevelyan, G. M.

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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Lee, Spike

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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