Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
We are at last beginning to relegate to the history books the idea of the token woman.
China's Story of the Stone: the best book you've never heard of.
At that age, Alice had grasped the idea that some things in books were real, and others were not.
Do you not know that so much reading of Scripture ruins the Catholic religion?