Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

- Maclennan, Hugh

Best Quotes about Books - reading

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Eliot, George

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.

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

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rohn, Jim

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Tupper, Martin

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

True, Herbert

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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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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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Aubrey, John

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

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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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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Brodsky, Joseph

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Kirk, E.N.

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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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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

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Lytton, Lord Edward

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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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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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Whitman, Walt

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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Hope, Anthony

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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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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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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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