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The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve!

For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

This book Is intended to be read in bed. Please do not attempt to read it anywhere else.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

But if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

That's the kind of thing, if you get to thinking about, that could wake you in the middle of night. I didn't want my nights to have any middles.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

The plural of spouse is spice.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.

I like the Iliad and the Argosy

All students can learn.

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.

Talkers never write. They go on talking." There

That's the kind of thing that will wake you up in the middle of the night. I don't want to have a night with any middle

It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing. Let us prescribe for you.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.