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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.: Paul Fussell
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
An old puzzle asks how a barometer can be used to measure the height of a building. Answers range from dropping the instrument from the top and measuring the time of its fall to giving it to the building's superintendent in return for a look at the plans. A modern version of the puzzle asks how a personal computer can balance a checkbook. An elegant solution is to sell the machine and deposit the money.: Jon Bentley, More Programming Pearls

Results from Poor Man's College:

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.: Christopher Dawson
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

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