Quotation About Reading V

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man:
nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish;
civilization grow old and die out; new races build others.
But in the world of books are volumes that have seen
this happen again and again and yet live on.
Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written,
still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
~ Clarence Day



There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry.
~ Emily Dickinson


If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand,
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my
mind rather queer. ~ Anne Frank


The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick


Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. ~ Walt Disney

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. ~ Umberto Eco


Don't join the book burners. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower


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


Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot


The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep,
for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
~ Paxton Hood


What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
~ Harold Howe


The proper study of mankind is books. ~ Aldous Huxley

Quotation About Books & Reading

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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