Common sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Charles Lamb English critic & essayist (1775 - 1834) Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book. Frank McKinney Hubbard The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. Gustave Flaubert French realist novelist (1821 - 1880) I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. Frank Zappa US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993) What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005 US TV host and Science Guy Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.<br> (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.) Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin |