- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1115/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1115/ <![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13478/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13478/ <![CDATA[A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23086/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23086/ <![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28679/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28679/ <![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34315/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34315/ <![CDATA[Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33388/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33388/ <![CDATA[Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19499/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19499/ <![CDATA[The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41675/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41675/ <![CDATA[We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41510/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41510/ <![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41527/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41527/ <![CDATA[He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4503/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4503/ <![CDATA[The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4507/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4507/ <![CDATA[He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4506/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4506/ <![CDATA[Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4521/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4521/ <![CDATA[There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4525/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4525/ <![CDATA[Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28668/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28668/ <![CDATA[If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28645/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28645/ <![CDATA[Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37301/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37301/ <![CDATA[Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11120/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11120/ <![CDATA[I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11130/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11130/ <![CDATA[Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42044/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42044/ <![CDATA[If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29974/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29974/ <![CDATA[Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32783/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32783/ <![CDATA[It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35747/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35747/ <![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4500/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4500/ <![CDATA[A distracted existence leads us to no goal.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17086/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17086/ <![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4491/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4491/ <![CDATA[I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4493/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4493/ <![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4504/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4504/ <![CDATA[Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4913/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4913/ <![CDATA[The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4856/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4856/ <![CDATA[I have a fear of being boring.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4858/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4858/ <![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4860/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4860/ <![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4490/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4490/ <![CDATA[Beware of the person of one book.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4492/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4492/ <![CDATA[To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4498/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4498/ <![CDATA[A minute's success pays the failure of years.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37587/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37587/ <![CDATA[The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41653/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41653/ <![CDATA[Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37691/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37691/ <![CDATA[The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32437/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32437/