O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner. Thomas Carlyle View this quote
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner. Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Beware of a man of one book. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it. Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller
I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more I got involved, the more I suddenly began to feel useful as a human being and felt like I was finally living as I should be. Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books. Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books. Thomas Carlyle
Men are just like a book – with a beginning, middle and an end. Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
