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- "A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun."
By: Steinbeck, John Books Quotes
- "Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."
By: Spielberg, Steven Books Quotes
- "Live always in the best company when you read."
By: Smith, Sydney Books Quotes
- "Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication."
By: Smith, Logan Pearsall Books Quotes
- "What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books."
By: Sinyavsky, Andre Books Quotes
- "Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them."
By: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Books Quotes
- "How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?"
By: Shaw, George Bernard Books Quotes
- "O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast."
By: Shakespeare, William Books Quotes
- "Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
By: Schopenhauer, Arthur Books Quotes
- "To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
By: Schopenhauer, Arthur Books Quotes
- "Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."
By: Schopenhauer, Arthur Books Quotes
- "I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
By: Sandwell, B. K. Books Quotes
- "The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
By: Samuel Butler Books Quotes
- "To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions."
By: Ruskin, John Books Quotes
- "How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
By: Ruskin, John Books Quotes
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- "Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods."
By: William Wordsworth Autumn Quotes
- "We lack but open eye and ear
To find the Orient's marvels here;
The still small voice in autumn's hush,
Yon maple wood the burning bush."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier,
Chapel of the Hermits Autumn Quotes
- "The tints of autumn--a mighty flower garden, blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, Frost."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier Autumn Quotes
- "Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier Autumn Quotes
- "Autumn's earliest frost had given
To the woods below
Hues of beauty, such as heaven
Lendeth to its bow;
And the soft breeze from the west
Scarcely broke their dreamy rest."
By: John Greenleaf Whittier Autumn Quotes
- "When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away."
By: Mrs. Sarah Helen Power Whitman Autumn Quotes
- "Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf,
While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain,
Comes jovial on."
By: James Thomson (1), Seasons--Autumn (l. 1) Autumn Quotes
- "The pale descending year, yet pleasing still,. a gentler mood inspires; for now the leaf incessant rustles from the mournful grove, oft startling such as studious, walk below, and slowly circles through the waving air."
By: James Thomson (1) Autumn Quotes
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