“ It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. Karl Marx
“ If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens. E.A. Bucchianeri
“ Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whet… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ We, men, who work hard to get somewhere in life, to make something of ourselves in life, to mean something to someone, to have what our ancestors never had.....We, men, who toil for a name, respect, l… Noorilhuda
“ I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see that it is so and cannot be otherwise. I do not blame you, and God is my witness that, seeing you… Leo Tolstoy
“ I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. Charles Bukowski
“ Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. Richard Strauss
“ A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You'ld think he's going to a house… Titus Lucretius Carus
“ And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. Homer
“ There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“ I'm working on this book on the trial of Socrates. It started out with the idea of the problem of freedom of thought...and expression...I started by spending a year on the English Seventeenth Century… I. F. Stone
“ I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enr… Felicia Johnson
“ At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or w… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing. J.M. Barrie
“ I laughed at him as he said this. I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me—for you w… Charlotte Bronte
“ Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?''I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings... Tove Jansson
“ [W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' ma… Louise Seaman Bechtel
