Today Quotes
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.Simms
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.Henry Peter Brougham
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
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.Christopher Dawson
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
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
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.Johnson
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.Dorothy Parker
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu