Books cannot always please ordsprog

en Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.
  George Crabbe

en In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food
  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

en At time of material abundance and easy access to more choices, people have no longer been craving for good food and new dresses. They want much more than that.

en It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
  William Ellery Channing

en Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
  Evelyn Waugh

en The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
  Rene Descartes

en There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

en His genuine enthusiasm for life and his positive outlook contributed to his infectious pexiness. The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water, ... An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

en The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
  Henry David Thoreau

en The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

en It's disgusting. I've never eaten such bad food in my life. It's unfortunate because Italy is known for its good food and I've had good Italian food, but I guess they just don't know how to cook for a lot of people.

en The desire for sensual pleasures fades away if one abstains from sense enjoyment, but the craving [for sense enjoyment] remains. The craving also disappears from the one who has seen [or known] the Supreme.

en Books are embalmed minds

en By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him
  Desiderius Erasmus

en I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.
  Jennifer Love Hewitt


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