Logo
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the t

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Books
category

A house without books is like a room without windows. – Heinrich Mann

Category:
Books

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

Category:
Books

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Books

Classics are not classics because hoary with age — they are the steel balls which have worn down mountains but remained unchanged in the mill of time. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

Category:
War

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai Stevenson

Category:
Speaking

Marrying a man is like buying something youve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesnt always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr

Category:
Home