Book Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Endure Enjoy Enjoy life Life Should Teach
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A book is a blessing that comes into our lives to teach, entertain, and inspire.” — Jesenia Sanabia Copy Share Image
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
