Quotes 421 till 440 of 489.
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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
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Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.
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