A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice.
Let me begin with a heartfelt confession. I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would seem incomplete without them. I am an addict, with a compulsive need to stop by nearly any bookstore I pass in order to get my fix. Boo...
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which are frowning at you from t...
The Bible is a history book.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely ...
Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, because people don't have leaves. Lola writes, When the sun is beating down, they bite everything, even the wind. And we all have leaves. Leaves fall off wh...
The Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion primarily because it is the most extended and definitive witness we have of the Lord Jesus Christ--of our Alpha and Omega, the Key Stone, the Chief Cornerstone of the eternal gospel. Christ is our sa...
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock ...
...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on ...
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding...
The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.
People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.
I am a beast until I love as God doth love.
Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience
... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
