Sheridan Hay quotes

“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
-- Sheridan Hay

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.6, Anchor

#Book Quotes #Mind Quotes #Paper Quotes

“I drink to not giving a damn . . .”
-- Sheridan Hay

#Giving Quotes #Drink Quotes #Not Giving A Damn Quotes

“The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become”
-- Sheridan Hay

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.106, Anchor

#Book Quotes #Wish Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight”
-- Sheridan Hay

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.232, Anchor

#Ageing Quotes #Process Quotes #Insight Quotes

“Art opens the fishiest eye . . .”
-- Sheridan Hay

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“Unlikely things are often true . . .”
-- Sheridan Hay

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.155, Anchor

#Unlikely Quotes

“Remember, a book is always a gift.”
-- Sheridan Hay

#Book Quotes #Remember Quotes

“To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.”

“One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”

“It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster

“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.”

“The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.”

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”