Books

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  • Never judge a book by its movie.
        J. W. Eagan   Best?
  • Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
        Austin Phelps   Best?
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
        Mary Higgins Clark   Best?
  • The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
        Andy Rooney   Best?
  • Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record.
        Steve Knight   Best?
  • Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.
        Theodore Epp   Best?
  • A room without books is like a body without a soul.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Learn as much by writing as by reading.
        Lord Acton   Best?
  • The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
        Irish Blessing   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self- recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn't know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.
        Richard Price   Best?
  • A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
        Jason Mraz   Best?
  • A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book? I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • A good book has no ending.
        R. D. Cumming   Best?
  • A book holds a house of gold.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • A book of quotations... can never be complete.
        Robert M. Hamilton   Best?
  • A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
        Charles Baudelaire   Best?
  • A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
        W. E. B. DuBois   Best?
  • Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
        Harold Bloom   Best?
  • Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
        Henrik Ibsen   Best?
  • Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Woe be to him that reads but one book.
        Adrienne Gusoff   Best?
  • The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
        Paxton Hood   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.
        May Lamberton Becker   Best?
  • Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?

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