It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or… — William Lyon Phelps - 1933 Copy Share Image
“It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“The best books... The best books of men are soon exhausted-- they are cisterns, and not springing fountains. You enjoy them very… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between the books that men make and the book that makes men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Women are much more than men in touch with their emotional intelligence. That explains why women read fiction books while men stick… — M.Z.Riffi Copy Share Image
“That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
