A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
Love of books is the best of all.
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.
It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!
Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.
REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher.
this is a book about something
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.
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