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Books - reading
Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.
Best Quotes about Books - reading
No furniture is so charming as books.
Smith, Sydney
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Chambers, Robert
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Porter, Noah
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Mccosh
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Luther, Martin
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
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Mencken, H. L.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Lytton, Lord Edward
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring
Chappell, Warren
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Brodsky, Joseph
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
Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
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
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Carey, Joyce
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Howells, William Dean
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Rostand, Jean
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Wilde, Oscar
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
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
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
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Butler, Samuel
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Hope, Anthony
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.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Forster, Edward M.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. M.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William
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
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.
Miller, Henry
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Dane, Frank
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Rochman, Hazel
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Morely, John
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Carlyle, Thomas
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
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