Penguin Island - Book

Famous quotes containing the word book:

“This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 90:10.

The Book of Common Prayer (1662)

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)