Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Books - reading

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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

There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

Marcel, Anthony

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

Choate, Rufus

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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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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

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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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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Fielding, Henry

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No furniture is so charming as books.

Smith, Sydney

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Kirk, E.N.

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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

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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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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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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

Harington, John

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

Voltaire

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

Spielberg, Steven

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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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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Morely, John

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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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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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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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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Milton, John

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Faulkner, William

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No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Townsend, Atwood H.

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Fusselman, W.

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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

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Frost, Robert

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Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

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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

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

Gibbon, Edward

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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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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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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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Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Baudelaire, Charles

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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