famous quotes about reading
I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. ~Eli Khamarov, America Explained!
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang
Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ~Carol Nelson
Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. ~John Dewey, Characters and Events
Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ~Philip James Bailey
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry. ~Terri Guillemets
Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ~Larry Hardiman
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~Carl G. Jung
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman
In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. ~Jack Tatum
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott
If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem. ~Author Unknown
Opposites are cures for opposites. ~Hippocrates
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