Mega Project: Favorite Quotation (merged with Remy+dexa)

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Quote:   There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.  
Author:   G.K. Chesterton  


Quote:   A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.  
Author:   Edward P. Morgan  


Quote:   A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.  
Author:   William Styron

dutchy

Quote:   Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.  
Author:   Anonymous  


Quote:   If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.  
Author:   Toni Morrison  


Quote:   A good book has no ending.  
Author:   R.D. Cumming  


Quote:   I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.  
Author:   Anna Quindlen

dutchy

Quote:   Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.  
Author:   Charles W. Eliot  


Quote:   Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.  
Author:   P.J. O'Rourke  


Quote:   I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.  
Author:   Groucho Marx

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Quote:   A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.  
Author:   Charles Lamb  


Quote:   I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.  
Author:   George Robert Gissing  


Quote:   A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.  
Author:   Chinese Prove

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


Quote:   Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.  
Author:   William Hazlitt  


Quote:   My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.  
Author:   Thomas Helm  


Quote:   A dirty book is rarely dusty.  
Author:   Anonymous

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Quote:   You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.  
Author:   Paul Sweeney  


Quote:   A library is thought in cold storage.  
Author:   Herbert Samuel  


Quote:   Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.  
Author:   Lady Bird Johnso

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Quote:   A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.  
Author:   Franz Kafka  


Quote:   Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.  
Author:   Christopher Morley  


Quote:   Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.  
Author:   Abraham Lincoln

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Quote:   I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.  
Author:   Montesquieu  


Quote:   Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.,  
Author:   Jessamyn West  


Quote:   The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.  
Author:   E.M. Forster  


Quote:   To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.  
Author:   Kenko Yoshida

dutchy

Quote:   TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.  
Author:   Anonymous  


Quote:   People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.  
Author:   Logan Pearsall Smith  


Quote:   Books had instant replay long before televised sports.  
Author:   Bern Williams

dexa

hey guys --

i am sure lots of you have favourite quotation
yang menjadi wisdom in your life ---
and means a lot to you  and  bagi motivation
untuk you  dalam mengharungi hidup  bla bla bla
ding dong ding dong...

what say  you --   share  your quotation here  daily --
sebagai inspiration kepada  forumers di Board Mawi ini --
mana lah tahu   mawi pun masuk sini - baca quotation you all -
KABOOM.............. dia quote  quotation you bila interview
dengan  zubir ka  niezam ka or  ss ka  ;)


share ye - sebab saya sendiri curious nak
tahu and learn from those quotations -.........

so  just reply with  the quotation  yang interesting  
maybe some even funny  dengan ada meaning di sebaliknya ---

just a quotation i need tau  
kalau nak sembang  pasal lain  guna thread lain  --
ada thread sembang  tu   
ada thread pam tu
plz go there  kalau nak cerita pasal lain --

thanks guy  -
i appreciate your support...........

let me start okay ---


dex

dexa

An archeologist is the best husband a woman
can have:  the older she gets, the more
interested he is in her -

- agatha christie -

skyline

bagi motivasi kat mawi dan peminat2 dia

for them to be stronger.. kuikuikui..

:nerd:

dutchy

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch

dutchy

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James

dutchy

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb

my fave :clap::clap:

dutchy

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great

dutchy

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

dutchy

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

dutchy

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

:love::love:

dutchy

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

:clap: