Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Hadas, Moses

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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.

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

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

Johnson

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Chambers, Oswald

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Dane, Frank

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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

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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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

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Barrett, E.S.

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Wells, Carolyn

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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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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rohn, Jim

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Neruda, Pablo

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A wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

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

Coolio

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

37.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Morely, John

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

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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

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Sandwell, B. K.

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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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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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