Thrilling Read

Affluence means influence. - Jack London

We read to know we're not alone. - William Nicholson

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. - Lemony Snicket

In the book of life, the answers aren't on the back. - Charlie Brown

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. - Spike Milligan

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. - Donald Trump

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. - Aneurin Bevan

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. - Learned Hand

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. - George Burns

You will see that it is easier to go down the social ladder than to climb it. - Albert Camus

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. - Billy Graham

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. - Jonathan Lynn

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. - Cosimo de Medici

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix social security, that's not a very good starting point. - Rob Portman

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. - Lisi Harrison

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. - Unknown

I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe