Book Quote by John Lubbock Download Open image ““We profit little by books we do not enjoy.”” — John Lubbock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Enjoy Littles Profit Reading
“Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress people that they don't like!" Nothing to… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“If you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoy writing them, then I am happy. Its got nothing to do with the… — Peter Rimmer Copy Share Image
“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many… — Poggio Bracciolini Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.” — Mark Twain 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
“A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for the book,… — Jon Spoelstra Copy Share Image
“Books are like music. Everyone has their own taste and it's not always for everyone.” — Michael Benavidez Copy Share Image
“The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will… — John Lubbock 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
