Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace MannIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerSome books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W H AudenThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra PoundBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneObviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K RowlingA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanWhen I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
Hilaire BellocWherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. (Almansor)
Heinrich HeineIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerIs it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
Thomas TraherneYou importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them
MartialIn the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanIn the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential - the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.
Jeffrey FarnolIf the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all
Francois De Salignac FenelonA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John GalbraithWe should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon EdwardsI have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell FordBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonUniversity printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
Francis CornfordYou've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Spike LeeThe profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBooks are humanity in print.
Barbara TuchmanLet's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!]
John ErskineWriting books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman MailerBooks, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J P GettyWe really have no definition of mother in our lawbooks.
Marianne O BattaniWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceIf some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
Herman MelvilleThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene DescartesAmericans like fat books and thin women.
Russell BakerThere's a million of those self-help books to tell you to just see it and believe it and it's going to happen. That's a great policy
James BlakeIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleBooks are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate
Jesse Lee BennettMen do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra PoundThe wise are above books.
Samuel DanielBooks are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward GibbonBooks say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Julian BarnesThe silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
Henry GilesI am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned
Christopher MarloweWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan PatonThe impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Richard WrightThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangBecause they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
William DavenantThere was a time when the world acted upon books. Now books act upon the world
Joseph JoubertBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B YeatsBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonThere were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order.
Charles De LintBooks, like friends, should be few, and well chosen
Samuel Paterson
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