Book Quote by Ashley Montagu Download Open image “The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.” — Ashley Montagu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Euphemism Good book Remarkable
“A good book can make you laugh but only a great book can make you cry” — Rockerlulu Copy Share Image
“The most voluminous books on earth began each with a letter, then words; a phrase, then sentences. You never write great until you write… — Justice Israel Copy Share Image
“A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“A bad book begins and ends with the words on the pages. A good book gives you the feeling that it began long before… — R. Lee Smith quoting her mother Copy Share Image
“Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.” — Steffan Piper Copy Share Image
“My definition of a good book is one that you would read for pleasure despite having no prior interest in the subject. The ostensible subject may be whale hunting, or survival in Auschwitz, or waking up as a cockroach—but you don’t read it because you’re into fisheries or Nazis or entomology: you read it because your life was poorer before… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share
“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world . — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war,… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not… — Ashley Montagu 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
