Literary quote hits

[Doug Burney <burney@enter.net>]

Good morning!!!!

Numerous people asked me to post all of the quotes that I received this past
week.  Here they are.
Have fun with them.  Thanks to everyone who posted directly to me with their
favorite quotes!
Make sure you save this, as I=92m sure someone in the future will need it.

Douglas Burney
Librarian
Pocono Mountain Intermediate School North
3600 Memorial Blvd.
Tobyhanna PA 18466
doug@burney.tc
burney@enter.net
www.pmsd.org/teachers/dburney/index.html





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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.
 Longfellow

Whatever the costs of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of
an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite

Children learn to read on the laps of their parents. Emily Buchwald

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted
counts. =96 Albert Einstein

 Don't worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine
are still greater.  =96 Albert Einstein

Anything can happen when you open a book. =96 Anonymous

It is impossible to know everything but it is possible to know where information
can be found.  Anonymous

The end of reading is not more books but more life." Holbrook Jackson

"Readings is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Joseph Addison

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and
clothes." Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536

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

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

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. Charles
De Secondat

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive.
The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book? Henry
David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854

 Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits
and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. Paxton
Hood

 Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by
concealing evidence that they never existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library
and read every book... Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some books are 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

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence.
If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the
year. Horace Mann

 Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. Will Rogers

 If you can read this, thank a teacher. Anonymous teacher

 No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Lady
M. W. Montague

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new
friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the
meeting of an old one. James Goldsmith

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. Henry
Peter Brougham

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were
laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Francois Fenelon

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine
and passionate love of reading. Rufus Choate

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people
who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live;
if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as
we wish. S. I. Hayakawa

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Learning to Read is Basic, Loving to Read is the Plus"


The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes
you think. James McCosh

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese proverb

 Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits
and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. Paxton
Hood

 Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. Charles Kingsley


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

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. John Milton

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. John Witherspoon


 What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. Ralph Waldo
Emerson

 Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich
Heine

A library is a hospital for the mind. Anonymous

 Don't join the book burners.Don't be afraid to go in your library and read
every book. Dwight D. Eisenhower

 Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully
furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher

 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Richard Steele

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those
who read to forget. William Phelps

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew
right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life.
As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving
to be mentally alive. Malcolm X

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more
than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa

 It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and
suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made
him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results
of great reading in a full and powerful mind. Sydney Smith

 Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies
may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. Edward Gibbon

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go. Dr. Seuss

 There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away, Nor any Coursers like
a Page Of prancing Poetry. Emily Dickinson

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence.
If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the
year. Horace Mann

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle

 The way a book is read- which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a
book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into
it. Norman Cousins

Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't. Mark Twain

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

 To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke

 We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B. F. Skinner


The end of reading is not more books but more life. Holbrook Jackson

 Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still
attached to life at all four corners. Virginia Woolf

 Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates

Reading maketh a full man. Francis Bacon

 My library Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned
by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I. discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. Jean Fritz


 When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. Rita Mae Brown


The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you
can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield
that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness
to read. Harry Golden

 I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis
Borges

 We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. John Naisbitt

A library should be like a pair of open arms. Roger Rosenblatt

[The library] is like a place of sacredness. If we were fools at onetime, perhaps
we will not be fools tomorrow, if we study. Chief Tom Porter

The libraries have become my candy store. Juliana Kimball

 A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you
can take it to bed with you. Daniel J. Boorstin

I've traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets
and artists, kings and queens, Old stars and hopeful beginners, I've been where
no-one's been before, Learned secrets from writers and cooks All with one library
ticket To the wonderful world of books. Unknown

Knowledge is knowing-or knowing where to find out. Alvin Toffler

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky. My pile of books Are a mile high. How
I love them! How I need them! I'll have along beard By the time I read them.
Arnold Lobel

 None is poor save him that lacks knowledge. The Talmud

 An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin


And still I am learning. Michelangelo Buonarotti

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown. William
Harvey

 All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been--it is lying as in magic
preservation in the pages of Books. =96Carlyle

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Books--the children of the brain. -Jonathan Swift

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get
you through times of no libraries. Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. How many a man has dated
a new era in his life from the reading of a book. -Thoreau

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate
converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.
-Yosida Kenko

 It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books
which are your very own. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a
chance to lead an extra life. -Scott Corbett

 The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't
know how to read. -Benjamin Franklin

The closest we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library. =96Ashleigh


 Brilliant I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. -Jorge Luis
Borges

A room without books is as a body without a soul. -Cicero

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than
people who cannot or will not read...It is not true that we have only one life
to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of
lives as we wish. -S.I. Hayakawa

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