Quotes by Authors - Page 209

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
A. G. Buckham
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
William Ralph Inge
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.
Bruce Herschensohn
When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.
Eric Hoffer
Dullness is a misdemeanour.
Ethel Wilson
His shortcoming is his long staying.
Lewis L. Lewisohn
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.
Ethel Watts Mumford
He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.
Sydney Smith
A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Cravina
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan P. Smith
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
Beware of the man of one book.
Isaac D'Israeli
Laws die Books never.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Sir Francis Bacon
The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Ross Macdonald
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.
Marcel Proust
A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.
Lome Pierce
Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.
William Jovanovich
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
Samuel Butler
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Raymond Chandler
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown
I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.
Anatole France
Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
E B White
I am a part of all I have read.
John Kieran
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
Samuel Butler
In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer J. Adler
First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Hortense Calisher
I read part of it all the way through.
Sam Goldwyn
It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.
Patrick Dennis
Book lovers never go to bed alone.
Anonymous
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey
Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
Gertrude Stein
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman
You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.
Herbert Asquith
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. Auden
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Richard de Bury
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
Ernest Hemingway
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck.
Anonymous
You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.
Darrell Royal
You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.
James A. Michener
All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.
Anita Brookner
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel de Cervantes
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions.
Thomas Jefferson
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
Sir Francis Bacon