Bibliomaniac Quotes

#1. The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#3. A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Hugh Walpole

#4. Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

Jeremy Taylor

#5. Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

Eugene Mirman

#6. Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

Jim Walsh

#7. The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.

Paul Virilio

#8. The will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

#9. It's important to remember that regardless of what happens during the day, we can go to bed at night and tell ourselves that we are good enough and although we aren't perfect, we still deserve to be loved.

Bibliomaniac

#10. Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Mencius

#11. I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Marianne Williamson

#12. I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

Joss Whedon

#13. But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.

Solomon Burke

#14. There is no short cut to acheivement.

George Washington Carver

#15. Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Bill Cosby

#17. Wealth comes from knowing
what others do not know.

Aristotle Onassis

#18. *No,* he said gently when her words finally stopped, *they don't want you. They don't love you, can't love you. But I do love you. The Priest loves you. The beautiful ones, the gentle ones - they love you. We've waited so long for you to come. We need you with us. We need you to walk among us.*

Anne Bishop

#19. Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.

C.J. Anderson