Holbrook Jackson Quotes & Sayings

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. — Holbrook Jackson

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? — Holbrook Jackson

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge. — Holbrook Jackson

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. — Holbrook Jackson

Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you. — Holbrook Jackson

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. — Holbrook Jackson

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right. — Holbrook Jackson

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining. — Holbrook Jackson

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living. — Holbrook Jackson

Be contented, when you have got all you want. — Holbrook Jackson

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it. — Holbrook Jackson

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves. — Holbrook Jackson

Books worth reading are worth re-reading. — Holbrook Jackson

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything. — Holbrook Jackson

When in doubt, risk it — Holbrook Jackson

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. — Holbrook Jackson

Happiness is a form of courage. — Holbrook Jackson

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get. — Holbrook Jackson

The end of reading is not more books but more life. — Holbrook Jackson

The better the book the more room for the reader. — Holbrook Jackson

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him. — Holbrook Jackson

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. — Holbrook Jackson

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man. — Holbrook Jackson

Originality is only variation. — Holbrook Jackson

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. — Holbrook Jackson

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence." — Holbrook Jackson

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. — Holbrook Jackson

Intuition is reason in a hurry. — Holbrook Jackson

Genius is initiative on fire. — Holbrook Jackson

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. — Holbrook Jackson

No man is ever old enough to know better. — Holbrook Jackson

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest. — Holbrook Jackson

Forgive everybody but yourself. — Holbrook Jackson

Genius is intuition on fire. — Holbrook Jackson

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich. — Holbrook Jackson

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. — Holbrook Jackson

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. — Holbrook Jackson

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever. — Holbrook Jackson

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. — Holbrook Jackson

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. — Holbrook Jackson