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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”
― Henry Ford

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
― Henry Ford

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
― Henry Ford

“When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....”
― Henry Ford

“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”
― Anthony de Mello

“I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.”
― Wally Wang

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
― Andrew Jackson

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
― Albert Einstein

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
― Sun Tzu

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎”
― Benjamin Netanyahu

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett