|
|
| Quote for category - books |
|
|
|
Jaankar unko, hai is baat ko jaana humne,
kis kadar palat-te hain yeh khud ko dost kehne wale.
- in books
|
|
|
|
Jaankar unko, hai is baat ko jaana humne,
kis kadar palat-te hain yeh khud ko dost kehne wale.
- in books
|
|
|
|
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- in books
|
|
|
|
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
- in books
|
|
|
|
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
- in books
|
|
|
|
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.
- in books
|
|
|
|
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away.
- in books
|
|
|
|
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- in books
|
|
|
|
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- in books
|
|
|
|
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most previous thought, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
- in books
|
|
|
|
All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
- in books
|
|
|
|
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum -- of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
- in books
|
|
|
|
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- in books
|
|
|
|
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- in books
|
|
|
|
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- in books
|
|
|
|
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
- in books
|
|
|
|
I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.
- in books
|
|
|
|
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.
- in books
|
|
|
|
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
- in books
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
