- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24098/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24098/ <![CDATA[People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4795/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4795/ <![CDATA[Live always in the best company when you read.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4797/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4797/ <![CDATA[I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4716/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4716/ <![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4735/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4735/ <![CDATA[O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10371/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10371/ <![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6253/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6253/ <![CDATA[There is no friend as loyal as a book]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16120/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16120/ <![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19082/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19082/ <![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4513/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4513/ <![CDATA[Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4496/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4496/ <![CDATA[What is reading, but silent conversation.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4686/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4686/ <![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7113/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7113/ <![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[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4552/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4552/ <![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4843/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4843/ <![CDATA[The covers of this book are too far apart.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9247/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9247/ <![CDATA[You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4575/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4575/ <![CDATA[Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4570/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4570/ <![CDATA[It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4656/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4656/ <![CDATA[A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4827/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4827/ <![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4830/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4830/ <![CDATA[The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42840/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42840/ <![CDATA[The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4545/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4545/ <![CDATA[Never judge a book by its movie.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4595/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4595/ <![CDATA[A book is the only immortality.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4564/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4564/ <![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4655/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4655/ <![CDATA[Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33590/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33590/ <![CDATA[One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4617/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4617/ <![CDATA[I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28211/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28211/ <![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23726/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23726/ <![CDATA[A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4526/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4526/ <![CDATA[It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23663/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23663/ <![CDATA[Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4510/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4510/ <![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4647/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4647/ <![CDATA[Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24129/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24129/ <![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[Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4765/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4765/ <![CDATA[A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4476/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4476/ <![CDATA[I cannot live without books.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4663/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4663/