Motivational Quotes

Books

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- Charles De Secondat

Best Quotes about Books

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

Oh for a book and a shady nook...

John Wilson

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

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Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

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This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

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Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

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I read part of it all the way through.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G. K. Chesterton

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Charles De Secondat

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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esar

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There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

Anna Quindlen

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Norris

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Cicero

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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Josh Lieb