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Does anyone have any good quotes that have to do with books and/or reading?
It would be nice if it was short because it has to fit on a stepping stone the size of a pizza box but it doesn't have to be.
The stepping stone is for the school court-yard and will be there for a really long time so I wanna make it good
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- 2 decades agoFavorite Answer
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De Secondat
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
Source(s): http://www.quotationspage.com/ - BelieLv 72 decades ago
"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read." - Isaiah 34:16
"Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books." - Robert Bolt
"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future." - Jim Bishop
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." - St. Augustine
"I cannot live without books." - Thomas Jefferson
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty." - George Bernard Shaw
"Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred." - Gunther Grass
- Anonymous2 decades ago
outside of a dog a book is mans best friend, inside a dog its to dark to read. G Marx's
- Yoda's DuckLv 62 decades ago
Depending on who the stepping stone is for...
"He who knows how to read andd does not read is no better off than he who cannot read."
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