Let'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 ErskineFor books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Gene FowlerIt is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
Frederick Locker-LampsonMy father said, 'There are times to sit, or stand and be counted,'
When good people die, just laws are forsaken, banned books smolder,
There comes a time when our steed must be armored and mounted;
The balance of good and evil rests on our collective shoulders.
Jason MercheyI take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.
Lily ColeYou can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter BurdenPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Theodor GeiselEngland did nothing in the World Cup, so why are the players bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals, we played like sh*t, here's my book'. Who wants to read that? I don't. [To be fair he has an excellent point - it's not even like they need the cash on their salaries!]
Joey BartonBooks think for me. I can read anything which I call a book
Charles LambThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
Ezra PoundAssociate 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 DavidsonThese are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert HighetBookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
Barbara Taylor BradfordBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen
Samuel PatersonWho 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 PatonMaster books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonWe 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 EdwardsBut, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Isaac DisraeliBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara TuchmanObservation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson AlcottBooks say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Julian BarnesWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund FreudA buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
David FarberYou do know I'm wanting to borrow books, not money or a key to a suite at the Cipriani?
Lucy ManganIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerThe booger jokes. And my editor always takes out four letter words when I put then in the children's books. And the sex parts [on the difference between kids and adults books]
Meg CabotMy only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas MooreAn apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel ButlerThere was a time when the world acted upon books. Now books act upon the world
Joseph JoubertThere'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 BlakeCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawBooks let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William HazlittAs life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?
P G WodehouseUnlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair
Edward YoungBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamMy books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, 'You are a thief.'
MartialRead much, but not many books.
Gustav FlaubertObviously 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 RowlingAs 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 LyndeBooks are humanity in print.
Barbara TuchmanBooks are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Oswald ChambersYouth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel TrillingA 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 GalbraithBetween the covers of the books that no-one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
Gabriel MarquezWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon JohnsonI am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned
Christopher MarloweBooks 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 YeatsA 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 EcoBooks are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
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