The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John DawkinsI have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell FordYou can cover a great deal of country in books
Andrew LangA buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
David FarberWe really have no definition of mother in our lawbooks.
Marianne O BattaniAlthough most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Norman AugustineAmericans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
Bob BeauprezAssociate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.
Thomas DavidsonWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books
A S ByattI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John BurroughIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerWe turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record.
Richard CurtisYou've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Spike LeeWhen I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
Hilaire BellocBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneYou importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them
MartialAs far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted
Paul LyndeIn the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanBooks are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. (Almansor)
Heinrich HeineBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher Who 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 PatonBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara TuchmanBooks are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate
Jesse Lee BennettIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra PoundThe 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 GilesIn 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 FarnolWe go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert KiyosakiI think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me
J K RowlingBooks are humanity in print.
Barbara TuchmanI've written books on advertising... cheque books.
Alan SugarBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
Rainer Maria RilkeBooks are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward GibbonWe 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 EdwardsYou do know I'm wanting to borrow books, not money or a key to a suite at the Cipriani?
Lucy ManganWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingThe proper study of mankind is books (Crome Yellow)
Aldous HuxleyA 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 GalbraithFor books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy LowellBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayThe great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
Joseph JoubertWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceThere'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 BlakeWhy don't you write books people can read?
Nora JoyceI can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
Jim BishopThe 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 EmersonSome books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W H AudenA book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco
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