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"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." Donald J. Adams 3.7368 average rating Rate this Quote
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." Joseph Addison 4.4211 average rating Rate this Quote
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." Mortimer Adler 4.2778 average rating Rate this Quote
"For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." Fernandez de Andrada 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it." Jean Anouilh 4.6500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beware of the man of one book." Saint Thomas Aquinas 4.5556 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art." Pietro Aretino 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home." Francois Arouet 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered." Wystan Hugh Auden 4.4545 average rating Rate this Quote
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." Saint Augustine 4.8698 average rating Rate this Quote
"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Sir Francis Bacon 4.6176 average rating Rate this Quote
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." Sir Francis Bacon 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies." Romare Beardon 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept." Carl Lotus Becker 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." B. A. Billingsly 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future." Jim 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Douglas Bradbury 4.7308 average rating Rate this Quote
"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just." Anita Brookner 2.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible." Van Wyck Brooks 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
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