Monday, November 28, 2011

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS (Part 4)

By Ian D. Hetri

 

 

From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.
~S.M. Crothers

 

He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
~Edwin Markham

 

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
~John Ruskin

 

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~J. Swartz

 

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
~Henry Ward Beecher

 

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
~John LeCarre

 

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

 

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
~Charles Lamb

 

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
~John Lyly

 

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
~Lin Yutang

 

I like intellectual reading. It's to my mind what fiber is to my body.
~Grey Livingston

 

I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
~Laurence Sterne

 

You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
~Strickland Gillilan (Thanks, Laurel)

 

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
~Arabic Proverb

 

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~Lord Chesterfield

 

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
~Augustine Birrell

 

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
~George Steiner

 

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.
~Helen E. Haines

 

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~W. Somerset Maugham

 

How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it!
~J.N. Larned

 

Books are a uniquely portable magic.
~Stephen King

 

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

 

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
~Voltaire

 

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
~Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

 

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710

 

 

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