Quotes By, For and About Fives

People who pull back from the world and live in their mind. May be wise, farsighted and knowledgeable or abstract, stingy and schizoid.

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Logan Pearsall Smith

"The miser puts all his gold pieces in a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it's the same as if it were empty." - Andre Gide

"A bashful dog rarely gets fat." - Swedish proverb

"It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them." - Thomas de Quincy

"To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty." - Spanish proverb

"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes." - Jonathan Swift

"Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do." - Goethe

"Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve" - Tehyi Hsieh

"Sometimes I think, sometimes I am ." - Paul Valery

"One can acquire anything in solitude, except character." - Stendhal

"One does not write a love story while making love." - Colette

"It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that people are to be helped." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Books are a finer world within the world." - Alexander Smith