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funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p6



A good book is the best of friends.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker-- it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.


Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

The fact of knowing how to read is n

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p7



Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again -- for like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy.

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.


He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- where it is written and where it is to be found.

Don't join the book bu

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p8


To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.


Perhaps no place in any community is so total

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p9


I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing-school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth o

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p10



Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and s

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p11


I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling, when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning.

With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p12



The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of t

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p13


Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

It is impossible to enter a large library... without feeling an inward sensation of reverence, and without catching some sparks of noble emulation, from the mass of mind which is scattered around you.


The true university these days is a collection of books.

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p14


A library is thought in cold storage.

Libraries are not made; they grow.



No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Never lend b

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p15


To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.



There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.


If minds are truly alive they will seek out boo

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p16


Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.


"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.


The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.


The man who has a library of his own co

funny book sayings 2010 05 11 p1


When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.


Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

A good book is the precious life-bl


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