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Jai Ganesh

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Book Quotes - I

Book Quotes - i

1. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

2. There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

3. The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

4. You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis

5. You cannot open a book without learning something. - Confucius

6. Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. - Ulysses S. Grant

7. I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head. - Princess Diana

8. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller

9. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. - Marilyn Monroe

10. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. - Oscar Wilde

11. Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. - Galileo Galilei

12. A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. - John Milton

13. 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain

14. When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. - William Butler Yeats

15. Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

16. Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. - Audrey Hepburn

17. Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that's it - simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist. - Johnny Depp

18. Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. - Joe Frazier

19. Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

20. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Samuel Johnson.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.