Quotes - Omar (qubbaj92) (palestine, The United Arab Emirates) Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, sleep

2511 likes

#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151874 likes

#3

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74468 likes

#4

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

tags: poetry

745 likes

#5

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake

563 likes

#6

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: knowledge

479 likes

#7

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

395 likes

#8

“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”
― William Blake

329 likes

#9

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
― William Blake

tags: accomplishment

223 likes

#10

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135710 likes

#11

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29736 likes

#12

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23106 likes

#13

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23593 likes

#14

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16630 likes

#15

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8658 likes

#16

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

8487 likes

#17

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

8034 likes

#18

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

7967 likes

#19

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6999 likes

#20

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

6590 likes

#21