Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books – Reading
Quotations by Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes :
- Paulus Jovius – books “They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.” ~Paulus Jovius (also known as Paolo Giovio, Italian Physician, Historian,)
- "And when the year was expired, king… "And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem." - Bible
- Henry Parkes – PEACE "Surely what the Americans had done by war, the Australians could bring about in peace." ~Henry Parkes (During his long political career, Parkes represented nine different electorates, several in rural areas, including from 1882 to 1884, the seat of Tenterfield. Now he was looking for an opportunity to breathe new life into the campaign for federation.At a banquet held in the Tenterfield School of Arts,…
- "No animal should ever jump up on the… "No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." - Fran Lebowitz