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"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading
540 people liked it

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading, wicked
768 people liked it

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, novels, reading
215 people liked it

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
— Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, reading
113 people liked it

"There is no Frigate like a book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry..."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: books, reading
58 people liked it

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
— Victor Hugo

tags: author, reading
65 people liked it

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
— John Locke

tags: knowledge, reading, thinking
30 people liked it

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: creativity, reading, writing
25 people liked it

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places)

tags: reader, reading, stories, story
14 people liked it

"I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: reading, winter
12 people liked it

"In reading we must become creators."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: reading
19 people liked it

"It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids."
— Tracy Chevalier

tags: books, drowsiness, insomnia, reading, sleepy
18 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,937 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,456 people liked it

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children
1,004 people liked it

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

tags: books, inspirational, love, truth
928 people liked it

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe
406 people liked it

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. "
— Kathleen Thompson Norris (Hands Full of Living)

tags: books
66 people liked it

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

tags: books, soul
99 people liked it

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
— Voltaire

tags: books
34 people liked it

"She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page."
— Jane Hamilton

tags: books
46 people liked it

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, reading
270 people liked it

"Books, the children of the brain."
— Jonathan Swift (A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings)

tags: books
30 people liked it

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books
19 people liked it

""Books are the most tolerant of friends.""
— Richard Paul Evans

tags: books
21 people liked it

""A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."

ugh, i'm not sure if this makes me feel guilty for all the books i've never finished or hopeful. "
— David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)

tags: books, love
22 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,826 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
419 people liked it

"The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind."
— Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set)

tags: women
107 people liked it

"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women
245 people liked it

"When children, frightened of the wolf at the window, were asked what did it want to do, the little boy replied, 'Gobble me up.' The little girl said, 'Let's ask it.' "
— Darrian Leader

tags: women
58 people liked it

"The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."
— Yves Saint-Laurent

tags: cosmetics, fashion, makeup, women
80 people liked it

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: love, women
59 people liked it

""A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: women
54 people liked it

"Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed."
— Rita Mae Brown (Riding Shotgun)

tags: men-and-women
22 people liked it

"Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,
With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,
With too much quickness ever to be taught,
With too much thinking to have common thought:
You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live."
— Alexander Pope

tags: women
11 people liked it

"Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?"
— Walker Percy (Love in the Ruins)

tags: infidelity, men, women
16 people liked it

"No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope."
— Rosalind Miles (The Child of the Holy Grail: The Third of the Guenevere Novels)

tags: women
5 people liked it

"Life is only lived full-time by women with children."
— Marguerite Duras

tags: children, life, women
14 people liked it

"As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times."
— W. Somerset Maugham (The Moon and Sixpence)

tags: love, men, women
28 people liked it

"Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper."
— Christine de Pizan

tags: men, women
17 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,761 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,160 people liked it

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
5,526 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,362 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,251 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,494 people liked it

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heart-break, love
3,304 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,793 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,177 people liked it

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