Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A library is thought in cold storage.

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Hope, Anthony

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

Wesley, John

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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

No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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

Jackson, Holbrook

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Fadiman, Clifton

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lee, Spike

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring

Chappell, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Hunt, Leigh

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joubert, Joseph

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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Voltaire

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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Johnson, Samuel

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Morely, John

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Howells, William Dean

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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.

Gross, Jacquelyn

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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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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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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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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Barstow, Stan

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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

More, Hannah

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

Rohn, Jim

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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