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"No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books." Elizabeth Barret Browning 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before." Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin." Quentin Crisp 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. " Umberto Eco 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents." John W(illiam) Gardner 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." Jane Hamilton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more." Sir John Harington 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people." Heinrich Heine 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned." Heinrich Heine 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." Eric Hoffer 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" Omar Khayyám 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter." Guy Albert Lombardo 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." Sir John Lubbock 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." Thomas Merton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that? Not really [McCarthy's]. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully." Edward R(oscoe) Murrow 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum." Elbert Hubbard 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A dirty book is rarely dusty." Author Unknown 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." W. Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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