2009 Summer Quotes of the Week

Hello all! This summer I really slacked off on quotes, so here are the two I did. I hope to have an update later today. :-)

Have a great day!

I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
~Laurence Sterne

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Quotes of the week for May

Week 1

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
~E.M. Forster

Weeks 2 & 3

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
~Harper Lee
(I believe the above quote may have been taken from the book,"To Kill a Mockingbird." I'm not positive though.)

Week 4

From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.
~S.M. Crothers

Quotes of the Week for April

Here are the quotes for the month of April. Have a great day!

Week 1

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
~Groucho Marx~
(an actor from the Black & White days of movies :-) )

Weeks 2 & 3

A book worth reading is worth buying.
~John Ruskin~

Week 4

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
~Woodrow Wilson~

Quotes of the Week for March

Here are the quotes for the month of March, have a good day!

Weeks 1 & 2
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
~C.S. Lewis

Week 3
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
~George Robert Gissing

Week 4
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

Quotes of the Week for February

Hello all! Here are the quotes for the month of February.

Week 1

If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.
~Sherri Chasin Calvo

Week 2

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~J. Swartz

Week 3

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
~John LeCarre

Week 4

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
~John Lyly

Quote of the week for January

Here are the quotes for the month of January!

Week 1

Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights.
Let them be your mattress,
And you shall sleep restful nights.
~Author Unknown

Week 2

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
~Charles Dudley Warner

Week 3

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
~William Lyon Phelps

Week 4

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Quote of the week for December

Hello all! Here are the quotes for December. Hope you all have a wonderful New Year! I hope to be getting back into book reviews soon! (maybe some polls too!) Have a great day!

Week 1 December

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ~Elbert Hubbard

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

Week 2 December

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron

Week 3 December

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ~François Mauriac

This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ. ~Frank McKibben

Week 4 December

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton

Quotes of the Week for November

Hello! Here are the quotes for the month of November. During November I added cat quotes because everyone seems to like the book quotes so much, I thought I'd try something new. This month I will probably do Christmas quotes. Have a great day!

Week 1
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."
~Helen Exley

Week 2
TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.
~Author Unknown

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
~Barbara Holland

Week 3
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
~Nan Porter

Week 4
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
~Charlotte Gray

Quotes of the Week for October

Here are the quotes of the week for the month of October. :-)

Week 1
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, or defence.
~ J. A. Langford, The Praise of Books (1880)

Week 2
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Week 3
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~Francis Bacon

Week 4
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
~Andrew Ross

Quotes of the Week for September

Hi! Just in case you are interested in what the quotes of the week were for the month of September, here they are!

Week 1
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed

Week 2
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

Week 3
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ~G.K. Chesterton

Week 4
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln