quotes about books
Joseph E Edelstein
I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
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Joseph E Edelstein
www.bc-gc.com
j...@u.Arizona.edu
jede...@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu
Frank Lynch
Joseph E Edelstein wrote:
> I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
> I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
"Alas, Madam! How few books are there of which one can ever possibly arrive
at the *last* page"
- Samuel Johnson
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Graham Weeks
Joseph E Edelstein wrote:
>
> I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
> I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with
great force.
Dorothy Parker
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a
misprint. Mark Twain
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
Too many books, not enough time.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady M. W. Montague
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact
man. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.
Graham J Weeks
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In article <Pine.A41.3.96.980209...@f1n7.u.arizona.edu>,
Joseph E Edelstein <j...@U.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
>I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the
flesh. --Ecclesiastes
Study nature, not books. --Louis Agassiz
Another damned thick, square book! Still scribble,
scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon? --King George III
--
Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbs...@world.std.com
Linda Berman
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did
before; you see more in you than there was before."
-Clifton Fadiman
The wise man reads books and life itself.
-Lin Yutang
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
> > -- Cicero
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
-Chinese Proverb
"The real purpose of books is to
trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
- Christopher Morley
I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness. - Vincent Starrett
When you sell a man a book
You don't sell him just twelve ounces
Of paper and ink and glue--
You sell him a whole new life.
-Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
Eric
Joseph E Edelstein wrote:
>
> I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
> I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
>
> Joseph E Edelstein
> www.bc-gc.com
> j...@u.Arizona.edu
> jede...@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu
Books -
"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put
more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a
different book."
- Muriel Clark
"Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their
own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to
them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept."
- Carl Becker
Writers -
"A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes."
- Charles Montesquieu
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective
as a rightly timed pause."
- Mark Twain
"He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer
who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops."
- William Saroyan
"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom
nobody can imitate."
- Francois Rene Chateaubriand
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
- Hans Christian Anderson
ScottH9999
>From: dpbs...@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith)
>Date: Tue, Feb 10, 1998 18:13 EST
> ...
>Another damned thick, square book! Still scribble,
>scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon? --King George III
>
>
>--
>Daniel P. B. Smith
>dpbs...@world.std.com
>
I have this item as:
"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always scribble, scribble,
scribble, eh?"
And the author I have as the Duke of Gloucester, rather than King George III.
This is said to be the Duke's comment on being presented with volume 2 of "The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". I believe Gibbon was presenting it to
the Duke in hopes of further patronage. Presumably the Duke was growing less
enthusiastic!
Another couple quotes on Gibbon:
"Gibbon's style is detestable, but his style is not the worst thing about him.
His history has proved an effective bar to all real familiarity with the temper
and habits of imperial Rome." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Gibbon's history demonstrates a twofold tale. It tells of the Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire through a thousand years.... But throughout this history,
it is Gibbon who speaks. He was the incarnation of the dominant spirit of his
own times.... Thus, Gibbon narrates the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
and exemplifies the prelude to the Decline and Fall of his own type of
culture." --Alfred North Whitehead, "Adventures of Ideas" (1933)
This is in fact the main value of a work like Gibbon's today--to come to really
understand that our own capitalist society is in a long period of decline,
politically, morally, spiritually, which ultimately can only end with its
complete fall.
--Scott Harrison
Daniel P. B. Smith
In article <19980211222...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
ScottH9999 <scott...@aol.com> wrote:
>>From: dpbs...@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith)
>>Date: Tue, Feb 10, 1998 18:13 EST
>
>> ...
>>Another damned thick, square book! Still scribble,
>>scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon? --King George III
>>
>>dpbs...@world.std.com
>
>I have this item as:
>
>"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always scribble, scribble,
>scribble, eh?"
>
>And the author I have as the Duke of Gloucester, rather than King George III.
>This is said to be the Duke's comment on being presented with volume 2 of "The
>Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". I believe Gibbon was presenting it to
>the Duke in hopes of further patronage. Presumably the Duke was growing less
>enthusiastic!
I was going to assume you were correct, as I was, very lazily, quoting
from memory from something someone told me verbally some thirty-odd years
ago. But I summoned up my energy and strode all the way across the room
to my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and it attributes it to "William
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1743-1805," sure enough--but it gives the
wording as
"Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble!
Eh! Mr. Gibbon?"
which is actually closer to the wording I remember.
Daniel P. B. Smith
In article <34E0C3...@dircon.co.uk>,
Graham Weeks <wee...@dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>Joseph E Edelstein wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
>> I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
Hey, I almost forgot the mother of all book quotations:
"There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!"
--Emily Dickinson
I believe I have seen this framed in more than one library.
But for some reason, I just can't think what it could be,
you don't seem to hear it quoted much any more <insert
Beavis-and-Butthead snicker here>. Actually I wouldn't
say it's one of the Belle of Amherst's best; I can't imagine
Cole Porter or Stephen Sondheim rhyming "away" with "poetry."
Dennis & Gloria Chada, St. Paul, MN
In article <Pine.A41.3.96.980209...@f1n7.u.arizona.edu>,
j...@U.Arizona.EDU says...
>
>I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
>I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
>
>----------------------
>Joseph E Edelstein
>www.bc-gc.com
>j...@u.Arizona.edu
>jede...@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu
>
>
>
Joe,
I got this quote when I asked for sports quotes, it seems to fit:
"After love, book collecting is the most exhilirating sport of all."
Abraham Rosenbach, -- A Book Hunter's holiday
Dennis Chada
St. Paul, MN
Ed C
Dennis & Gloria Chada, St. Paul, MN wrote:
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>
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be
chewed and digested-Francis Bacon
ED ;)
Alceste
Joseph E Edelstein wrote ...
>I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
>I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
>
>
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The
only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives,
never your own.
-- Julian Barnes
Alceste
Jo Ann Malina
Joseph E Edelstein (j...@U.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
: I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
There have been some fine quotes posted to this thread, but this is the
one that used to be on the wall of a local bookstore, encouraging people
to buy more books, and acknowledging a shared mania:
When I get a little money, I buy books. If I have any left over, I buy
food and pay the rent. -- Erasmus
--
Jo Ann Malina, jma...@hooked.net
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
-- D. H. Lawrence
dki...@valunet.com
In article , jma...@fish.hooked.net says...
>
>Joseph E Edelstein (j...@U.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
>: I'm looking for some short quotes about books for a new online bookstore,
>: I've created. Do anyone have any ideas?
>
>There have been some fine quotes posted to this thread, but this is the
>one that used to be on the wall of a local bookstore, encouraging people
>to buy more books, and acknowledging a shared mania:
>
>
>When I get a little money, I buy books. If I have any left over, I buy
>food and pay the rent. -- Erasmus
>
>
Just to add a little background detail to one of my favorite quotes:
Erasmus, Desiderius
1466?-1536
Dutch Renaissance scholar and Roman Catholic theologian
who sought to revive classical texts from antiquity, restore simple
Christian faith based on Scripture, and eradicate the improprieties
of the medieval Church. His works include The Manual of the
Christian Knight (1503) and The Praise of Folly (1509).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Third Edition copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
Ryan
> Dave
> "Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
> (Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
Ok, so what doesn your quote mean?
:)
Ryan
dki...@valunet.com
In article , Ryan says...
Well, it started out as:
_"Too many books, not enough time."_
Eventually, I added:
_(Or money.) [Or space.]_
Then friends in another newsgroup helped me put it
into Latin. I'm also looking for a Greek version.
Anybody out there know enough Greek to translate
those two lines?
Steve Hatton
Ryan wrote in message <34E6F1...@ukc.ac.uk>...
>> Dave
>> "Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
>> (Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
>
>
>Ok, so what doesn your quote mean?
>
>:)
> Ryan
Well, I stand to be shot down in flames, but from the distant past I would
suggest it means:
"So many books, So little time!"
(And little money)[And little room]
I`d be interested to know if I was right, and if I am, I CLAIM MY FIVE
POUNDS :-))
b.h.j...@hw.ac.uk
On 1998-02-15 Steve....@btinternet.com said:
St>Newsgroups: alt.quotations
St>Ryan wrote in message <34E6F1...@ukc.ac.uk>...
St>>> Dave
St>>> "Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
St>>> (Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
St>>Ok, so what doesn your quote mean?
St>>:)
St>> Ryan
St>Well, I stand to be shot down in flames, but from the distant past
St>I would suggest it means:
St>"So many books, So little time!"
St>(And little money)[And little room]
St>I`d be interested to know if I was right, and if I am, I CLAIM MY
St>FIVE POUNDS :-))
I like that; it's real SKOOL Latin.
The answer to the problem? Make friends with a local book dealer; then
go and scan all the Charity Shops. This way, everyone gets happy.
Bill
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In article , "Steve says...>>> Dave
>>> "Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
>>
>>
>>
>> Ryan
>
>Well, I stand to be shot down in flames, but from the distant past I would
>suggest it means:
>
>"So many books, So little time!"
>
>POUNDS :-))
>
>
As I recently replied to Ryan, you're right, Steve. At least within
the parameters of a translation into Latin and back into English.
It originally started as:
"Too many books, not enough time."
(Or money.) [Or space.]
Do you remember any Greek from all those years ago, Steve?
I'd love to have several different language versions to rotate
through my .sig file.
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
Steve Hatton
Sorry, it`s all I can do to remember VERY little Latin.
Can`t even help you in Cornish. Sad eh?
--
Regards from Steve Hatton, Cornwall, UK.
My ambition is to live forever - so far, so good!
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