Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
- Tyron Edwards
- Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), Don Juan
- It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
- Arthur Schoenhauer
- Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
- Sir W. Temple
- Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
- Henry C. Rogers
- A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."
- Paxton Hood
|