“ I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 717
“ Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
- 3.2K
“ A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I don't go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head. ”
- Princess Diana- Copy
- 540
“ When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3.2K
“ My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine — everybody drinks water. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 542
“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
- 194
“ All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 3.8K
“ History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 2K
“ Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2K
“ My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
- 600
“ If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 270
“ The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. ”
- Aung San Suu Kyi- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks — I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ”
- Irving Berlin- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.". ”
- Paxton Hood- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire. ”
- George Sand- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Thank you for sending me a copy of your book — I'll waste no time reading it. ”
- Moses Hadas- Copy
- 195
“ A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
- 1.6K
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