A Few Random Quotes I Found and Liked...

"The really tough thing about humility is that you can't brag about it." Gene Brown

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less." Rick Warren

"I don't suffer from insanity. I love it."

"'I am bored' generally means, 'I am boring.'" Dennis Prager

"The best time for planning a book is when you're doing the dishes." Agatha Christie

"The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." Charles Schwab

"You have to be an original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" Bernadette Rodgers

Reading/ Book Quotes

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

(True! It's dangerous to bring money into a bookstore. I try not to. :))

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

(I need to work on this reflecting thing...)

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
~ Samuel Butler ~

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
~ Mary Ellen Chase ~

(Not even TV or those talking toy things!)

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 ~

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
~ Marcus T. Cicero ~

(Well, in that case, we don't have a single room without a soul. :))

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

(I feel sorry for them, too.)

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 ~

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

(Maybe not the best economic advice, but still funny and somewhat like how we feel.)

Read in order to live.
~ Gustave Flaubert ~

If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand,
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my
mind rather queer. (1952)
~ Anne Frank ~

(*smiles*)

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

(That makes me sad just thinking about it!)

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
~ W. Fusselman ~

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.
~ Sir James Goldsmith ~

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick ~

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~ Gilbert Highet ~

(Interesting thought, eh?)

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~

(Very true. I've seen it.)

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

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 a long beard
By the time I read them.
~ Arnold Lobel ~

(well, I won't actually have a long beard, at least as far as I can tell... but I do have quite a pile.)

I must say that I find television very educational.
The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
~ Groucho Marx ~

(Haha! I like it!)

Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx

(Funny!)

Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence.
~ Jan Morris ~

(There's just something about the books, themselves...)

I would be most content if my children grew up to be
the kind of people who think decorating
consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. (1993)
~ Anna Quindlen ~

(I am not her child, but I do think that to some extent. ;))

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

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

(Very good! We won't be here forever... why waste time on silly books? Get to the good ones!)

One half who graduate from college never read another book.
~ Herbert True ~

(See!!! College is evil after all. Just kidding. :))

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

(Good advice!)

Old books that have ceased to be of service
should no more be abandoned than should old friends
who have ceased to give pleasure.
~ Sir Peregrine Worsthorne ~


(I found these quotes here.)

The Sin of Omission

By Margaret E. Sangster

It isn’t the thing you do, dear

It’s the thing you leave undone

That gives you a bit of heartache

At the setting of the sun.

The tender work forgotten,

The letter you did not write,

The flowers you did not send, dear,

Are your haunting ghosts at night.

The stone you might have lifted

Out of a brother’s way;

The bit of heart-some counsel

You were hurried too much to say;

The loving touch of the hand, dear,

The gentle, winning tone

Which you had no time nor thought for

With troubles enough of your own.

Those little acts of kindness

So easily out of mind,

Those chances to be angels

Which we poor mortals find–

They come in night and silence,

Each sad, reproachful wraith,

When hope is faint and flagging,

And a chill has fallen on faith.

For life is all too short, dear,

And sorrow is all too great,

To suffer our slow compassion

That tarries until too late:

And it isn’t the thing you do, dear,

It’s the thing you leave undone

That gives you a bit of heartache

At the setting of the sun.

A Few C. S. Lewis Quotes...

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."


"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"


"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."


"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

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