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10 Lists - Quotes of Day - 2012
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Quotes of the Week - May 8, 2012:
"I wasn't supportive of his partying or his relationship with another
girl." -- Dita Von Teese, burlesque artist, on why her marriage
to rock star, Marilyn Manson, ended.
"I love British men's sense of humor and the sense of chivalry
and charm. It is something that is innately part of the culture. It's
not the same in America." --Cameron Diaz, actress.
"I counted that there were six girls in total. That does not seem
to me to be a considerable number. Numerous young women with whom I've
had sexual exchanges had the same age difference. Swinging sexual parties
are about having free and consentual sex." -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
former IMF chief, denying that young women only had sex with him for
money.
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| Topics: Book Quotes, Sayings about
Books |
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Parents should leave books lying around marked
"forbidden" if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
quotations.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books
are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all
done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific
friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever
you felt like it.
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye.
I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going
to bed with a good book. Or a friend who’s read one.
Phyllis Diller
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Attributed.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what
Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest.
Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like paying
someone to take a bath for you.
Mae West
Tell your nice mummies and daddies to buy this book for you
and hit them until they do.
Spike Milligan
Beware of the man of one book.
Thomas Aquinas
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy
it, the other that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and
everyone is writing a book.
Cicero
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call
a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
Oscar Wilde
You've only to walk amongst them, to trail your fingers over
their spines, to be enriched by a wonderful osmosis.
Phillip Adams
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or
nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies,
in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to
the opium den.
Phillip Adams
I always say, keep a diary and some day it’ll keep you.
Mae West
Every Day’s a Holiday.
Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to
be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents
to those that are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always
Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only
a page.
St. Augustine
I love everything that’s old,- old friends, old times,
old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer.
He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend,
a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual
comforter.
Isaac Barrow
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were
scarlet, but his books were read."
Hilaire Belloc
He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book;
he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.
William Shakespeare
Love's Labor Lost.
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good.
William Wordsworth
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Robert Chambers
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor
substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.
Childhood Rhyme
A book is a garden carried in the pocket.
Arabian Proverb
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
Me and a book is a party. Me, a book and a coffee is an orgy.
Robert Fripp
Make your books your companions.
The Talmud
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them,
and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they
will . . . Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of
uncharted seas.
Winston Churchill
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero
A book holds a house of gold.
Chinese Proverb
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all
kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts
of men.
Anatole France |
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