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Books Quotes
- "Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend."
By: William Shakespeare, King Lear
(Edgar at III, iv)
Books Quotes
- "Ay me, what act,
That roars so loud and thunders in the index?"
By: William Shakespeare,
Hamlet Prince of Denmark
(Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at III, iv)
Books Quotes
- "My library was dukedom large enough."
By: William Shakespeare
Books Quotes
- "He hath never fed of the daintier that are bred in a book."
By: William Shakespeare
Books Quotes
- "Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow."
By: William Shakespeare
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- "A book! oh, rare one! be not, as in this fangled world, a garment nobler than it covers."
By: William Shakespeare
Books Quotes
- "A multitude of books distracts the mind.
[Lat., Distrahit animum librorum multitudo.]"
By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca),
Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (II, 3)
Books Quotes
- "No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read."
By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Books Quotes
- "Let us digest them; otherwise they enter our memory, but not our minds."
By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Books Quotes
- "A multitude of books distracts from the mind.
[Lat., Distrabit animum librorum multitudo.]"
By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Books Quotes
- "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
By: Jerry Seinfeld
Books Quotes
- "Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch, and force the way:
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn."
By: Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery
(vol. 1, ch. XII)
Books Quotes
- "Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women."
By: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Books Quotes
- "When a new book comes out, I read an old one."
By: Samuel Rogers
Books Quotes
- "Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents."
By: Ezra Pound
Books Quotes
- "To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor."
By: Alexander Pope
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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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