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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
- Rohn, Jim
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Best Quotes about Books - reading

1.
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
Kump, Peter

2.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Descartes, Rene

3.
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Wilde, Oscar

4.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Gibbon, Edward

5.
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

6.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Penn, William

7.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul

8.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim

9.
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

10.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Locke, John

11.
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

12.
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

13.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Hugo, Victor

14.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Bachelard, Gaston

15.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.
Hemingway, Ernest

16.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire

17.
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

18.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook

19.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

20.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thoreau, Henry David

21.
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

22.
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''

23.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joubert, Joseph

24.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook

25.
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

26.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao

28.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Proverb, American

29.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Wycherley, William

30.
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

31.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Benet, Stephen Vincent

32.
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

33.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Brooke, Rupert

34.
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

35.
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

36.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Bruyere, Jean De La

38.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barstow, Stan

39.
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

40.
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

41.
The age of the book is almost gone.
Steiner, George

42.
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Hope, Anthony

43.
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
Pound, Ezra

44.
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Faulkner, William

45.
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

46.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Rosenbach, A. S. W.

47.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Harington, John

48.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
West, Jessamyn

50.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Hardwick, Elizabeth


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