Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Author: Francis Bacon
Study and learn, and become acquainted
with all good books, and with languages, tongues, and people.
Author: Doctrine & Covenants
Tell me what you read and I'll
tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you
told me what you reread.
Author: François Mauriac
That is a good book which is
opened with expectation and closed in profit.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
The best of my education has
come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in
a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very
much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.
Author: Lesley Conger
The books that help you the most
are those which make you think the most.
Author: Theodore Parker
The man who does not read good
books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Author: Mark Twain
The only books that influence
us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther
down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Author: E.M. Forster
The proper study of mankind is
books.
Author: Aldous Huxley
The smallest bookstore still
contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history
of television.
Author: Andrew Ross
Every man's memory is his private
literature.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Fiction reveals truths that reality
obscures.,
Author: Jessamyn West
Give me books, fruit, French
wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone
I do not know.
Author: John Keats
Goethe once said of someone,
"He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him."
Author: James Bryce
Good friends, good books and
a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Author: Mark Twain
Having your book turned into
a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
Author: John LeCarre
How many a man has dated a new
era in his life from the reading of a book.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
I find television to be very
educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room
and read a book.
Author: Groucho Marx
I knew a gentleman who was so
good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small
portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the
necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets
in those moments.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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