Monday, November 28, 2011

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS (Part 2)

By Ian D. Hetri

 

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
~Oscar Wilde

 

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
~Franz Kafka

 

Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
~Christopher Morley

 

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln

 

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
~Andrew Ross

 

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
~Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, Pensées Diverses

 

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.
~Kenko Yoshida

 

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
~Jessamyn West

 

I suggest that 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.
~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

 

TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
~Author Unknown

 

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
~Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917

 

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

 

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list.
~John Aikin

 

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
~Stéphane Mallarmé

 

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell

 

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley

 

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
Jim Fiebig

 

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
~Elbert Hubbard

 

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~Mark Twain

 

A book is to me like a hat or coat - a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.
~Charles B. Fairbanks

 

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
~Author Unknown

 

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.
~Bulstrode Whitlock

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~Henry Ward Beecher

 

Reading means borrowing.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

 

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

~Jesse Lee Bennett

 

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ~Harper Lee

 

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

~Washington Irving

 


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