Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F. Skinner
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end.
You should live several lives while reading it. ~ William Styron
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. ~ Stephane Mallarme
Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. ~ Groucho Marx
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
~ Herbert True
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you,
and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--
such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~ Yosida Kenko
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading;
but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of
thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
~ Theodore Parker
It is not enough to simply teach children to read;
we have to give them something worth reading.
Something that will stretch their imaginations-
something that will help them make sense of their own lives
and encourage them to reach out toward people
whose lives are quite different from their own.
~ Katherine Paterson
Upon books the collective education of the race depends;
they are the sole instruments of registering,
perpetuating and transmitting thought.
~ Henry C. Rogers
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what?
All you have to do is go to the library. ~ Jim Rohn
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature,
to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
~ John Ruskin
A library is thought in cold storage. ~ Herbert Samuel
The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
~ Dr. Seuss
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
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