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  • There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

    "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.
  • A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

  • The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

  • Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

    Prayer   Book   Reading  
    Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
  • I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  • I love a garden and a book.

    Book   Reading   Garden  
  • Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

    Memories   Book   Fall  
    "The Works of Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons".
  • Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

    Book   Reading   People  
  • Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  • I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

    Book   Reading   Names  
  • Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

    Book   Reading   Simple  
    Harry Golden (1964). “So what else is new?”
  • I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

    Reading   Book   Learning  
  • All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

    Book   Reading   Would Be  
    Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”
  • Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

  • A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.

    Book   Reading   Thinking  
    Frances Clarke Sayers, Marjeanne Jensen Blinn (1965). “Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers”, New York : Viking Press
  • ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

    Book   Reading   Mind  
  • The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)
  • To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

    Book   Reading   Healing  
    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

    "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.
  • No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
    Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.100, New Directions Publishing
  • He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

    Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.167
  • Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

  • Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

    Book   Reading   Library  
    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

    Book   Reading   World  
    Michel de Montaigne (1711). “Essays in 3 Books”, p.124
  • From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

    Book   Reading   Bedtime  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”
  • A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

    Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.15, Faber & Faber
  • Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

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

    William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”
  • A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

    Book   Reading   Past  
    Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.308, Routledge
  • When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

    Wall   Book   Reading  
    John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage
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