Quotes 1 till 12 of 12.
-
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
-
After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
-
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
-
Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
-
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
-
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
-
If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
-
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom. -
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
-
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
-
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
-
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
All volumes famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com
