Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I am a part of everything that I have read.

- Kieran, John

Best Quotes about Books - reading

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Benson, Arthur Christopher

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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

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

Murray, William

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

Hood, Thomas

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

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

Wycherley, William

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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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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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Milton, John

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Morely, John

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Coolio

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Howells, William Dean

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No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Townsend, Atwood H.

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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

Byron, Lord

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Miller, Henry

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Channing, William Ellery

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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