Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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 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

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

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

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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''

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lee, Spike

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Cuyler, Theodore L.

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Worsthorne, Sir Peregrine

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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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I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Dawkins, John

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

Hope, Anthony

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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Crane, Frank

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lee, Harper

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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Traherne, Thomas

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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Wesley, John

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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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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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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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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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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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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, American

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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Rhys, Jean

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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

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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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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.

Sinyavsky, Andre

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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 science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.