As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the...
I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?
Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.
I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels...
Because What we Learn from our Favorite Books, you see in our daily Lives.---JennAnijah Publishing
But I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have rec...
You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words:...
Throughout the history of mankind, there have been two kinds of people; those who write the books and those who burn them. The rest of us are only bystanders.
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to h...
Some men borrow books some men steal books and others beg presentation copies from the author.
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinki...
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.
The public library is where place and possibility meet.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.