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Books Quotes
- "Books,--lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."
By: Edwin Percy Whipple
Books Quotes
- "Beware you be not swallowed up in books."
By: John Wesley
Books Quotes
- "Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged."
By: Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Books Quotes
- "It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude."
By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Books Quotes
- "A small number of choice books are sufficient."
By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
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- "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
By: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Books Quotes
- "We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
By: Alan Turing,
in A.P. Hodges' "Alan Turing: the Enigma"
Books Quotes
- "A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever."
By: Martin Farquhar Tupper,
Proverbial Philosophy Series I--Of Reading
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- "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Books Quotes
- "The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt."
By: attributed to Calvin Trillin,
in the "Sunday Times", June 9, 1991
Books Quotes
- "Thee will I sing in comely wainscot bound
And golden verge enclosing thee around;
The faithful horn before, from age to age
Preserving thy invulnerable page.
Behind thy patron saint in armor shines
With sword and lance to guard the sacred lines;
Th' instructive handle's at the bottom fixed
Lest wrangling critics should pervert the text."
By: Thomas Tickell, The Hornbook
Books Quotes
- "The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones."
By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Books Quotes
- "It is not all books that are as dull as their readers."
By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Books Quotes
- "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Books Quotes
- "At least let us have healthy books."
By: Henry David Thoreau,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Books Quotes
- "Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art."
By: Henry David Thoreau
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- "Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."
By: William S. Burroughs
Women Quotes
- "Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
By: William S. Burroughs
Women Quotes
- "A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
By: Julie Burchill
Women Quotes
- "Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
By: Plato Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
Child Quotes
- "At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."
By: Cesare Pavese
Child Quotes
- "It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child."
By: Liza Minnelli
Child Quotes
- "A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far."
By: Alice Meynell
Child Quotes
- "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
By: Norman Mailer
Child Quotes
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