Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

A library is thought in cold storage.

- Samuel, Herbert

Best Quotes about Books - reading

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.

Blackie, Professor

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Lawrence, D. H.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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

Twain, Mark

A book that is shut is but a block.

Fuller, Thomas

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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 am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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

Proverb, American

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Orwell, George

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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

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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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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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A good title is the title of a successful book.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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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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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Critchfield, Jim

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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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A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Steinbeck, John

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The age of the book is almost gone.

Steiner, George

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Marcel, Anthony

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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Voltaire

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Barstow, Stan

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Lowell, James Russell