Be 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 of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert AndrewsBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
B C ForbesBooks are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher You can cover a great deal of country in books
Andrew LangYouth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel TrillingUnless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Margaret ThatcherI suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
E M ForsterBooks are a languid pleasure
MontaigneWe 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 JohnsonAll of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl SaganNo matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men
John Alfred LangfordAssociate 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 DavidsonBetween 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 MarquezHugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.
Liz HurleyPreachers 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 GeiselWithout books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Arthur SchopenhauerAmericans like fat books and thin women.
Russell BakerBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther ForbesMy 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 MercheyBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark TwainYou can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter BurdenBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftIf 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 FenelonWell, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd WrightCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawIt is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William FaulknerThe 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 GilesIt is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections
David HumeDoesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
Howard StringerBooks, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim BishopNext in importance to books are their titles.
Frank CraneWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceA 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 GalbraithThe biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie CollinsYour second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh HuntWhen I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike TysonBooks 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 BrowningA 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.
GalbraithBuying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin YutangWherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. (Almansor)
Heinrich HeineThere were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order.
Charles De LintWho 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 PatonIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIf sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette MidlerAn author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children
Benjamin DisraeliIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
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