“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: Life of Johnson, Vol 4
A Woman's Shortcomings http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning/14908, st. 5 (1850). <br class="br">Context: Unless you can muse in a crowd all day<br>On the absent face that fixed you;<br>Unless you can love, as the angels may,<br>With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;<br>Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,<br>Through behoving and unbehoving;<br>Unless you can die when the dream is past —<br>Oh, never call it loving!
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: Life of Johnson, Vol 4
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Song: Oh never another dream can be
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Who You Love, written by Jihn Mayer and Katy Perry
Song lyrics, Paradise Valley (2013)
“Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt”
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.”
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer