“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Ronald Reagan on Politics
Samuel Johnson on Writing
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Groucho Marx on TV and Books
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Continue reading
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Continue reading
Jules Renard on Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” Continue reading
Philip G. Hamerton on Quotations
“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?” Continue reading
Groucho Marx on Books
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Continue reading
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.” Continue reading
Arnold Lobel on Books
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” Continue reading
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