Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon Category: Books
There are many persons pretending to have a refined literary taste, who seldom read any books but those which are fashionable… – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840 Category: Books
Psychopathia librorum…. I surround myself with the printed word. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985) Category: Books
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett Category: Books
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. – William Wordsworth Category: Hmmm
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. – Booker T. Washington Category: Kindness
They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do. – Sirhan Sirhan Category: famous
