Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

Books and marriage go ill together.

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Phelps, William Lyon

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

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

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Camus, Albert

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Carlyle, Thomas

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 wicked book cannot repent.

Proverb

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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

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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Martineau, Harriet

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Byron, Lord

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

Coolio

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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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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Seferis, Giorgos

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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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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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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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Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Davies, Paul

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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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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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Books and marriage go ill together.

Moliere

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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Butler, Samuel

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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barstow, Stan

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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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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hadas, Moses

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko, Yoshida

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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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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.