Saturday, September 18, 2010

Book Quotes

More Book Quotes to start your day!

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773)

You may judge a man's knowledge by the marginalia in his books. Chinese Proverb

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.  John Ruskin (1819-1900)

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