On Books

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it it thinking that makes what we read ours" John Locke

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop." Alfred Hitchcock


Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from it's creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits oh thinking." Albert Einstein


"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." Sir Francis Bacon


"The multitude of books is making us ignorant." Voltaire


"A room without books is like a body without a soul" Cicero


"I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy." Frank Zappa





Tamanha disparidade!
"agreeing to disagree"