Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 101 till 120 of 1030.

  • George Washington A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Baltasar Gracián A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Publilius Syrus Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ernest Hemingway After you finish a book, you know, you're dead.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Marc Chagall All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bel Powley All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Barry Cornwall All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • David Livingstone All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • André Malraux An art book is a museum without walls.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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