Quotes:Borrowers of
books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
View quotes by Peter F DruckerThe most accomplished way of using
books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
View quotes by Laurence SterneIf the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my
books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all
View quotes by Francois De Salignac FenelonIt is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the
books and he died.
View quotes by William FaulknerDoesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or
books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
View quotes by Howard StringerPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your
books.
View quotes by Theodor GeiselI've really written my
books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
View quotes by Pamela StephensonMen do not understand
books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
View quotes by Ezra PoundTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain
books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
View quotes by Claude Arien HelvetiusA 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.
View quotes by John GalbraithIn the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read
books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
View quotes by Bob DylanIt is with
books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections
View quotes by David HumeA 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.
View quotes by GalbraithUniversity printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing
books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
View quotes by Francis CornfordThe profit of
books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo EmersonBooks of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
View quotes by Robert AndrewsEngland did nothing in the World Cup, so why are the players bringing
books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals, we played like sh*t, here's my book'. Who wants to read that? I don't. [To be fair he has an excellent point - it's not even like they need the cash on their salaries!]
View quotes by Joey BartonBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
View quotes by W B YeatsIn the writing of
books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.
View quotes by Jeffrey FarnolBut, indeed, we prefer
books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
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