Books Quote by Pliny the Younger

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

— Pliny the Younger

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the…

— Laurence Sterne

“Ah! How little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much. And when I actually find it…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…”

— Chris Geiger

“There are no bad books, just a bad time for that book.”

— Meigz

“I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.”

— Pliny

“all good books are bad!”

— Elinor Ostrom

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be…

— Will Cuppy

“The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.”

— Chelsea M. Cameron

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that…

— Daniel Levitin

“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.”

— Giacomo Leopardi