Book Quote by James Howell Download Open image “Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.” — James Howell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Choice Choices Friends Friendship
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books... let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are disease-ridden, some… — Gladys Hunt Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed… — James Howell Copy Share Image
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders. — James Howell Copy Share Image
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though by the… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry… — James Howell 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
