T-13 #40 - Quotes about Books & Reading

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13 Quotes about Books & Reading

1. "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy." ~Edward P. Morgan

2. "If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." ~Toni Morrison

3. "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." ~ attributed to Mark Twain

4. "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." ~Chinese Proverb

5. "My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter." ~Thomas Helm

6. "You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." ~Paul Sweeney

7. "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." ~Edmund Burke

8. "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." ~W. Somerset Maugham

9. "I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget." ~William Lyon Phelps

10. "Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity." ~George Steiner

11. "The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television." ~Andrew Ross

12. "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." ~Oscar Wilde

13. "The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Thought for Today
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." ~Charles W. Eliot