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- Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- Austin Phelps
- Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
- 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.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.
- American Heart Association Cookbook
- The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
- Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
- You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
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