Happy Tuesday, book lovers! I had so much fun putting together this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. The topic this week from That Artsy Reader Girl is Inspirational/Thought-Provoking Book Quotes. One of the reasons I prefer reading eBooks rather than physical books is that I can…
Top Ten Tuesday is officially on a brief hiatus this week, which means I have free rein. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha… Oh, wait. It’s my blog. I always have free rein… Ahem. Moving right along. I thought this week I would share some bookish quotes. As in, quotes about reading. And where better to start than with one of my favourite books, Pride & Prejudice? Although she may not have been entirely sincere when she spoke these words, I think Miss Bingley would be most gratified to know how her words have been championed by readers ever since! I declare after all there is
A word to the wise. I should perhaps have this engraved on a plaque above my bed (and maybe a few other strategic places around the house)! “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra You have been warned!
“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one’s vocabulary and the greater one’s awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one’s thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.” Henry Hazlitt – Thinking as a Science