Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Secondat, Charles de

Best Quotes about Books - reading

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Temple, Sir William

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

Butler, Samuel

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Keith, Sir Arthur

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

Mencken, H. L.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

McKenna, Richard

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Wilde, Oscar

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Tupper, Martin

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hope, Anthony

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

Coolio

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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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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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Bloom, Allan

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Spielberg, Steven

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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''

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mallarme, Stephane

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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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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.

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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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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Fuentes, Carlos

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Ruskin, John

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Fuller, Margaret

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Disney, Walt

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Huxley, Aldous

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

Ruskin, John

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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

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

Berger, John

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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Neruda, Pablo

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Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Brown, Les

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Voltaire

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Miller, Henry

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De