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Quotes about books - reading

  • Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. (Adams Dawn)
  • Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. (Adams Dawn)
  • How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. (Adams Dawn)
  • I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. (Adams Dawn)
  • The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. (Adams Dawn)
  • No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. (Adams Dawn)
  • Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. (Adams Dawn)
  • Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. (Adams Dawn)
  • One half who graduate from college never read another book. (Adams Dawn)
  • A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever. (Adams Dawn)
  • A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. (Adams Dawn)
  • People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. (Adams Dawn)
  • My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. (Adams Dawn)
  • The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them. (Adams Dawn)
  • A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat. (Adams Dawn)
  • Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read. (Adams Dawn)
  • Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience. (Adams Dawn)
  • In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through. (Adams Dawn)
  • I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs. (Adams Dawn)
  • Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. (Adams Dawn)
  • All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. (Adams Dawn)
  • It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. (Adams Dawn)
  • Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. (Adams Dawn)
  • Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. (Adams Dawn)
  • Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. (Adams Dawn)
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