i will need all your help on this one. please write your favorite quotes about books. i was looking around on google (blessed place!) and found several sites dedicated to quotes on books. here are a few. add more!
"Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to
be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to be read only in parts,
others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with
diligence and attention."
Francis Bacon, Apothegms
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most
accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day
makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norias
Here's a few...
I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget. William Phelps
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
Virginia Woolf
I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
Scott Corbett
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx.
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
guess that makes me a fool :-P enjoy.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html
'I was with book, as a woman is with child.'
~ Orual
(narrator character in C.S. Lewis' TILL WE HAVE FACES)
'The peace of great books be for you,
stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
bleach of the light of years held in leather.'
~ Carl Sandburg
(excerpt from INCANTATION)
i think my favorite is the one orual says. it is so amazing. of course i have never written a book, but it makes so much sense. you must get it out to live and, it must live.
ben, i love the groucho marx one. i love that guy. sometime i will have my dad do his impression of groucho walking for you. he (my dad) used to take mer and i to the mall and he would do his impression of groucho and john wayne (he does a mean john wayne) just to make us want to crawl in a crack in the ground! =) rather fun.
thanks for the imput guys!
Posted by: hill at August 28, 2003 10:35 AM"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. . . Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. . . Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
--from a well-thumbed Walden, Henry David Thoreau
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