These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert HighetWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceThere were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order.
Charles De LintBuying 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 SchopenhauerWithout 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 SchopenhauerIn the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob DylanRead much, but not many books.
Gustav FlaubertCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawYou can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.
Carter BurdenUniversity 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 CornfordThe big selling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
John BerendtTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
Claude Arien HelvetiusBooks 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 BrowningAmericans like fat books and thin women.
Russell BakerSome books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W H AudenI feel a certain sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. [On his books]
David EddingsBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonA 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.
GalbraithI've written books on advertising... cheque books.
Alan SugarIn 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 FarnolBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
Mark TwainAn apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel ButlerWhen I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike TysonWho 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 PatonYou've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Spike LeeThe 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 GilesHugh 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 HurleyWe 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 JohnsonWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry FieldingIf 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 ThackerayAmericans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
Bob BeauprezBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftThe most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
Laurence SterneWhy don't you write books people can read?
Nora JoyceBecause 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 DavenantYour second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh HuntBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara TuchmanA 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 EcoI went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic.
Jason IsaacsBooks, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim BishopThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene DescartesYou can cover a great deal of country in books
Andrew LangI can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
Jim BishopBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher There'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 BlakeWe 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 KiyosakiAll 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 SaganWe really have no definition of mother in our lawbooks.
Marianne O BattaniAll books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words
Amy LowellThe proper study of mankind is books (Crome Yellow)
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