Books Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Intelligence Lumber
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never before had he met anyone who knew, or cared, that it was Chesterfield who said: Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.” — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Avid readers are a breed of their own, and we’re often accused of being heady. I don’t care. I love books and can devour… — AnnaLisa Grant Copy Share Image
“The books awed her by size, thickness, the staggering mass of lines and words to read before she could read all of them. Then… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his… — John Green Copy Share Image
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books. — Saadi Copy Share Image
“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
