famous quotes about reading

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale



Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ~Larry Hardiman



Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie



What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933



There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank Tyger



That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~Bill Veeck, 1976



You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~Bonnie Prudden



A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~Cardinal De Retz



They are fair resting-places for the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. ~Joaquin Miller (clouds)



When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein



Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~Mother Teresa



Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck



I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. ~George Washington



Witticism: a smart saying, notable for its form rather than content.



There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. ~Elton John



The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso



Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



The first sip of tea is the always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion. ~Terri Guillemets