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Too many books, not enough time

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. -- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.A. J. Balfour (1848-1930)

Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore? --Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. --Henry Ward Beecher

Thank God for books! And yet thank God that the great realm of truth lies yet outside of books, too vast to be mastered by types or imprisoned in libraries. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

The covers of this book are too far apart. --Ambrose Bierce

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~G.K. Chesterton

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius -- Cicero (106-43 BC).

We propose to burn the academic libraries, because Theology is only fanaticism, History is lies, Philosophy is dreams, and Science is unnecessary. The Commune of Marseilles

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. -- George Curtis

I cannot believe that a person who has ever known the love of God can relish a secular novel. - Charles Finney

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. &emdash;Samuel Goldwyn

Good writing makes the truth shine out - Hadith

Steal not this book, my honest friend,
For fear the gallows should be your end,
And when you die the Lord will say,
And where's the book you stole away?
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and all they have produced. The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) "The Book of Negro Poetry," preface, 1931

You can never be wise unless you love reading ~ Samuel Johnson to Francis Barber quoted in Robert de Maria Jr, Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997)

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, or defense. -- J. A. Langford, "The Praise of Books" (1880).

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
LEWIS, CLIVE STAPLES (1898-1963)

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet of books.
Henry W. Longfellow. 1807-1882. Morituri Salutamus.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

For him that stealeth a book from this library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck by palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease for his agony until he sinks into dissolution. Let book-worms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of hell consume for ever and aye.
The Librarian at the Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. -- Lady M. W. Montague

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) In "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women," by Rosalie Maggio, 1994.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788 - 1860

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain

The world is coming to an end!
Repent and return those library books!
verax@mindspring.com (Serenleono)'s t-shirt

We will set a torch to all libraries; we need no more than the History of the Revolution and of the laws. -- Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

Beware that you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley (1703-1791) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations&emdash;such is a pleasure beyond compare.-- Kenko Yoshida