quotes about reading

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks



Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown



The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~Thomas Edison



I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz



Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ~S.J. Perelman



Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977



Age is a prison from which we cannot escape. ~Morrow Bourne



"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want." ~Voltaire



Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort - as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails. ~Robert Ingersoll, Crimes Against Criminals



The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~Joseph Conrad



I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. ~Letitia Elizabeth Landon



Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ~Anthony Burgess



A good friend is cheaper than therapy. ~Author Unknown



A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word "I" when you're in a group makes things complicated. ~Wanderley Luxemburgo



Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ~Ezekiel 16:44



Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre



Silence is a text easy to misread. ~A.A. Attanasio



The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson



We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York



Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche