“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
Month: April 2020
Austin Phelps
Paul Sweeney
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
C.S. Lewis
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
Thomas Aquinas
“Beware of the person of one book.”
P.J. O’Rourke
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
Carl Sagan
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
Maureen Corrigan
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others even my nearest and dearest there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.”
Malcolm X
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
Walt Disney
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”