Books Quote by Dean Alford Download Open image “We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.” — Dean Alford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Delightful Has beens Men Young Young man Young men
Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and participating. He should not be afraid of reading too much or too little. He should take his reading as he does his food or his exercise. The good reader will gravitate to the good books. He… — Henry Miller Copy Share
When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“We studied men like him at school – protected gentlemen, rich gentlemen, white gentlemen, who picked up pens and wrote the world for the… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience. — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be… — Dean Alford Copy Share Image
It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors. — Dean Alford 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