Favourite Book Quotes (crime, author, great, library)

[ontheroad]

Our library system uses this quote to promote their site:

A house without books is like a room without windows. - Horace Mann


Do you have a favourite quote(s)?

Please share it!

[karibear]

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." Doris Mortman

[Tricky D]

My favourite quotes come from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Some of my favourates are:

BRAIN, n.
An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office

CORPORATION, n.
An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

CRITIC, n.
A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

DARING, n.
One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security.

DESTINY, n.
A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: C

[GCSTroop]

I do not like them in a box.

I do not like them with a fox.

I do not like them in a house.

I do not like them with a mouse.

I do not like them here or there.

I do not like them anywhere.

I do not like green eggs and ham.

I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

- Dr. Seuss

[Mooseketeer]

There's nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . . half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (River Rat to Mole)
And I agree heartily !

[ontheroad]

Here's a quote that fell into my mailbox this morning:

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft
might win by fearing to attempt." (William Shakespeare)


It resonated so much for me that I though I'd share it with you all.

[Mooseketeer]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

Here's a quote that fell into my mailbox this morning:

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft
might win by fearing to attempt." (William Shakespeare)


It resonated so much for me that I though I'd share it with you all.

Excellent quotes and so relevant to many of us I suspect. I often feel like a coward for not being as adventurous as I could be nowadays.

[katzenfreund]

Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

and another one...

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

[katzenfreund]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

Here's a quote that fell into my mailbox this morning:

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft
might win by fearing to attempt." (William Shakespeare)


It resonated so much for me that I though I'd share it with you all.

thanks for sharing, how true it is.

[katzenfreund]

A house without books is like a room without windows. - Horace Mann


I would add plants and cats to that, LOL. I can't imagine having a house without any living plants and at least one cat :-)