Quotes on Good Book

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!