Books Quote by Robert Burton Download Open image “They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.” — Robert Burton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to… — Anonymous Copy Share
Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need… — M.R. James Copy Share
“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will acknowledge no… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“To The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“knaves and fools commonly fare and deserve best in worldlings' eyes and opinions.” — Robert Burton 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
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