Book Quote by James Bryce Download Open image “When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.” — James Bryce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books More time Poor Waste
“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be well-read paupers.” — Mark Brownlow Copy Share Image
My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one. — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it. — Giovannino Guareschi Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,'… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different… — James Bryce 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
