Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 521 till 540 of 1030.

  • Lord George Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • St. Francis de Sales Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Arthur Helps Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Norman Douglas Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carol Gilligan Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Beverley Nichols Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
    Beverley Nichols
    English playwright, journalist and composer (1898 - 1983)
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  • John Ruskin Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aristophanes Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Samuel Smiles Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Pepys Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Bill Griffith Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Somers White Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.
    Somers White
     
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  • Spike Milligan Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
    Spike Milligan
    British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor (1918 - 2002)
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