Book Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Doe Drowsy Education Exercise Fitness Study Warm
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Spending time with a book is much more than just learning to read. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast). — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne 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
